Beijing threatens retaliation over US “smear campaign” sanctions threats. But the real story is the one both governments ignore: Chinese users are flocking to Claude while Americans flock to DeepSeek. The walls don’t work.
After 17 months of silence, DeepSeek’s invisible founder spoke — to tell America its AI lead is an illusion propped up by chips alone, and that Nvidia’s CUDA moat is crumbling. Why the ghost chose to speak now.
29 founding nations. A Shanghai secretariat. A path to shape UN AI policy. China’s WAICO alliance is now a functioning institution — and watchchina.ai forecast it a week before it launched.
For the first time, Xi Jinping will personally headline China’s flagship AI summit — launching a global alliance built to ensure no single country dominates AI. Everyone knows which country he means.
In a system that governs by targets, China just deleted its jobs number for the first time in decades. The silence is an admission: Beijing no longer knows how many jobs will survive its own AI revolution.