Foreign media: The United States' leading advantage in the field of artificial intelligence against China has essentially disappeared, and competition between the two countries is shifting from individual companies or single technologies to a confrontation over complete innovation ecosystems. China has continuously delivered world-class AI capabilities through multiple enterprises such as DeepSeek, Moonshot's Kimi K3, and Alibaba's Qwen, forming a self-sustaining and self-iterating ecosystem.
Meanwhile, the U.S. still tends to view each breakthrough in isolation, responding passively rather than proactively shaping the competitive landscape. China’s "ecosystem governance" model integrates industrial policy, finance, standard-setting, developer communities, and diplomatic expansion, aiming to make the global community increasingly dependent on its technology stack.
If the U.S. relies solely on export controls and frontier innovations without a coherent, cross-partisan national strategy, it will ultimately lose the long-term competition for trust and adoption by global developers, businesses, and governments. In the end, technological leadership will be determined not by who invents first, but by who can build an ecosystem that the world wants to join.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1872491925278723/
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