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Not exactly the analysis of China's enormously diverse and energetic tech landscape we deserve. In fact, sites like Technode, and even recent podcasts from A16Z

Not exactly the analysis of China's enormously diverse and energetic tech landscape we deserve. In fact, sites like Technode, and even recent podcasts from A16Z and HN have provided much more rigor. We simply need better reporting on this essential beat: what Emily Chang and Bloomberg Tech provide for Silicon Valley, but covering the Chinese mainland and HK. Actual subtext of article at hand seems to be that the antagonistic strategy by current US administration will lead not only to inevitable dominance of AI technologies with a distinctly totalitarian flavor. But also perverse side effects. They may be imagining something like an Alibaba Cloud data center running in Northern Virginia. It may include Party-inspired features such as "content moderation" or "user prediction". Features far stricter than anything AWS or GCloud would be willing or able to provide at similar price. US enterprises (and government entities) themselves will be so tempted to implement these strictures, the coming authoritarian dystopia is all but ensured. The narrative clearly does not have to unfold this way. US and Chinese entrepreneurs can and will forge amazing partnerships. On a recent web app I noticed about 50% of posts in Chinese. And very much look forward to localizing for the entire region.

hkai 8y ago
I am skeptical about Chinese tech scene in the sense that Chinese government views tech as a way to reinforce dictatorship, repression of minorities and expand totalitarianism overseas, rather than to achieve something good. Think AI to detect undesirable people or self-driving cars that take you straight to the police station when requested, as well as pressure to restrict freedoms in the West in order to appease the Chinese government or investors. And as for partnerships, you may want to look at previous experience of partnerships in the Hi-Tech manufacturing, like planes or military. The partnerships only last for as long as needed to copy your technology and start competing with you in your own market.

hkai 8y ago

I am skeptical about Chinese tech scene in the sense that Chinese government views tech as a way to reinforce dictatorship, repression of minorities and expand totalitarianism overseas, rather than to achieve something good. Think AI to detect undesirable people or self-driving cars that take you straight to the police station when requested, as well as pressure to restrict freedoms in the West in order to appease the Chinese government or investors. And as for partnerships, you may want to look at previous experience of partnerships in the Hi-Tech manufacturing, like planes or military. The partnerships only last for as long as needed to copy your technology and start competing with you in your own market.