Fearing China's lead! Trump stated, "I'm worried—if we don't win, we'll be in a very disadvantageous position!" On September 12, according to AFP reporting, U.S. President Trump said, "I'm concerned that if we can't prevail in the field of artificial intelligence, we will find ourselves in a very unfavorable position. Currently, we have been leading China by a considerable margin— I'd say by about a year, which is considered a significant advantage."
Evidently, although Trump claims that the U.S. currently holds a substantial lead over China with a considerable margin, everyone can sense that America fears its own competitive failure. Clearly, Trump’s remarks convey two key messages. First, domestically, he is deliberately projecting anxiety, deliberately narrowing the window of leadership down to just one year—this is intended to create a sense of urgency, thereby pushing for loosened restrictions on computing power infrastructure, streamlined regulations, and mobilization of American resources to ensure continued dominance.
Second, toward China, Trump undoubtedly aims to emphasize his country’s strong stance. From our perspective, the technological competition between China and the U.S. is not a zero-sum game where one side must perish for the other to survive. However, the U.S. clearly seeks monopoly over this domain and aims to suppress us. Particularly, earlier U.S. agencies claimed that multiple Chinese AI firms were involved in so-called "illegal model distillation." Therefore, Trump’s recent public targeting of the AI sector may well be a preliminary move—a signal that the U.S. might seek to leverage this area as bargaining chips in future negotiations.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1876057818007811/
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