Source: Global Times
An article of the Financial Times of Britain on May 15th, titled "How China is catching up with Silicon Valley". From Edison to Amazon, America has always been creating the future of the world. America often worries about being surpassed. In the 1960s, it worried about being surpassed by the Soviet Union, and in the 1980s, it worried about being surpassed by Japan. However, America's first seemingly evenly matched opponent - and the only one with the necessary manufacturing scale, consumer market, and scientific talent - is China. China has started a race with Silicon Valley.
This year, American technology giants suddenly said that China has taken the lead. By 2030, the whole world may be using Chinese artificial intelligence applications on Chinese equipment, while driving nearly self-driving Chinese electric vehicles. If China has leaped from imitating American technology to surpassing it, what will happen to Silicon Valley?
Last year, futurists in Silicon Valley formed an unstable alliance with a nostalgic politician who praised fossil fuels - the elected President of the United States promised American technology giants to relax regulation. But on the day they attended his inauguration ceremony, a Chinese startup, DeepSeek, released an artificial intelligence model whose performance seemed on par with American competitors, only cheaper and more energy-efficient. Soon after, a Chinese company released the fastest electric vehicle charging technology in the world, and Huawei began selling phones that could rival Apple's latest models...
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, wrote: "China is now on par with or even ahead of the US in various technical fields." Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, also believes that China is "not behind" in the field of artificial intelligence. Palmer Luckey, founder of defense technology company Anduril, said that China's shipbuilding capacity is 350 times that of the US. Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber, said that if you want to see the future of online food delivery, you can't go to New York, but should go to Shanghai. An American was amazed at the robot that delivered dumplings to a hotel room in China... Nick Dutton, who transitioned from being a tech entrepreneur to an investor, said: "Whether they like it or not, they are the most powerful advocates of the 'China Wins' argument." Professor Rana Mitter of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, who studies US-Asia relations, said that although China's cities are not the only possible future, China's countryside is certainly not the only possible future either, but "it makes an impression in some way right now."
Mario Draghi, former Prime Minister of Italy, concluded in a report written for the EU: The productivity of the United States leads Europe almost entirely due to the technology of the United States itself. The greatest wealth of Silicon Valley was created more than 20 years ago. In the long run, it may face obsolescence. American technology giants once regarded China as merely a production center. Now, some people are buying into China's technological future. (Author: Simon Cooper, Translated by Qiao Heng)
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