Mostly the advantage that China has, other than probably a large pool of math educated engineers and abundant data thanks to China's aggressive surveillance, is

Mostly the advantage that China has, other than probably a large pool of math educated engineers and abundant data thanks to China's aggressive surveillance, is that things would be unethical or hard to move forwarded under current regulation, would be much easier in China. Ironically, underlining in this article is that acknowledgement of such often unethical or act in doubt are perhaps essential and critical to AI's future development. To that, China is at a clear advantage than America, and the rest of civilized west world. A strong economy is also necessary to propel the development, or Russia would also be at a advantage similar to China's, or North Karea's. But only China has the economy incentivization similar to West's.