On one hand I am glad there is a thriving private sector in China, but it does not look like it can challenge the CCP, and that is problematic for this technology.
During Imperial times, the self-identified Han culture went from 18% of the population inside the Great Wall to 90%, and with strongly racist beliefs. There is every indication that the 100 year plan is for the Han peoples to expand from the present 18% of the world population to 90%, as non-Han are regarded as sub-human.
AI is plateauing in performance per Watt in von Neumann architectures, so the way forward is dedicated Bayesian processor architecture. Unfortunately, the class of problems solved efficiently is limited for each particular instance of processor architecture and the industry is focused on problems that have dual use for financial and military dominance, like logistics routing, facial recognition, group behaviour detection and modification.
