China’s AI Push Reshapes Its Economic Future
THE SO WHAT
China leaning into factory deployment and exporting AI to emerging markets — instead of chasing AGI headlines — is a bet that control of applied productivity, not frontier research, will set trade leverage over the next decade. If you rely on Chinese manufacturing or sell into Belt and Road markets, assume AI-native competitors and supply chains show up faster there than in Western policy debates.
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