The west is already losing the AI arms race | Larry Elliott Whatever the truth about DeepSeek, China’s tech sector is light years ahead on strategy and investment.
In the early days of its rapid economic development, China was seen as the place where US and European companies could outsource production.
To be sure, there are those who question whether a Chinese startup can manage to achieve on a shoestring what US tech companies have been forced to spend billions of dollars on.
The rush to win the AI race will be just as competitive – and perhaps even more so – than the space race of the 1950s and 60s.
The creativity needed to come up with new ideas and new products would be stifled by China’s Marxist-Leninist system.
