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.
Beijing is reopening the door to Nvidia — at the exact moment it proved it doesn’t need to. The great reversal in the chip war, where the roles of the two superpowers have quietly switched.
169 countries. One question. Who controls the world’s most powerful AI? The UN’s first global AI governance dialogue confronts the asymmetry watchchina.ai has tracked all summer — and China arrives with an opening.
China’s open models were its greatest weapon. Now Beijing is quietly considering locking them down. The potential U-turn that would collapse the “open China vs. closed America” narrative overnight.
A 1,400-fold explosion in two years. 140 trillion tokens a day. 100,000 derivative models. The West argues over who has the best AI — China just proved whose AI is actually being used.
The West accuses China of building authoritarian AI. But unsealed court documents show the Pentagon branded an American AI company a “national security risk” for refusing autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The uncomfortable symmetry, examined honestly.