I think China is both a far better environment for this tech ... and we just don't know how bad it's become. Every metric says China's youth is doing horrible.

I think China is both a far better environment for this tech ... and we just don't know how bad it's become. Every metric says China's youth is doing horrible. Xinjang is doing terrible. Mining provinces are doing terrible. And by terrible we mean "economic growth for China as a whole is probably around -3%" (guesstimates from US banks, not Chinese government figures), so there isn't a single place that is doing well, it's just there's disaster provinces and there's catastrophe provinces. Chinese (esp. youth) are locked up, there are a lot of stories about migration being denied on a large scale for Han Chinese, including within China itself (not allowed to move cities, like you saw long ago in the Soviet Union) And yet we hear nothing. Meanwhile there's "social credit score", mass unemployment in the capital city, and expert LLM teams (that have put the best US and EU teams to shame 2 or 3 times now) ... I think we'll suddenly find out China far ahead of absolutely anyone else in this field.