‘Chi-Merica’ was the term used to describe the 2000-2016 period of globalisation when the worlds two largest economies basically made the world turn round. Today’s relationship has become much more adversarial, so much so that reflexive presumption of bad intent may be obscuring what is really going on. AI from the China perspective - albeit with US aligned experts - tells the story of not a race to AGI but one of
accelerating diffusion of AI into the tangible economy. It’s a difference race, if true.