For the same reason as buying the same guitar used by John Lennon make most of us playing music as good as John Lennon.

> however the west still has the upper-hand in terms of robot to population density ratio.

Considering that latest data shows that China industrial robot density is only lower than SG and SK (surpassing Japan and German recently), then the west doesn't have the upper hand anymore.

North Americans can have their Auto Galapagos. Even Aussies and the UK aren't listening to the White House's histrionics (for now).

Unironically yes since China wont move geographically from its position for million of years, US can be distracted by something else somewhere and pivoted from Asia, but China wont. It stays there.

> appeasement never works

lmaoo for everything that works they wouldn't be called appeasement, just treaty. Is Paris Peace Accords an appeasement that doesn't work? It sealed the demise of the non-communist South Vietnam, but no one cared about South Vietnam today aside of fringe Vietnamese in California.

Next thing you know, having affordable and quality state unis pumping out a huge number of engineers annually will constitute a state-backed subsidy :)

> Xi is comfortably retired while China and America drive a new century of human prosperity

They told the same during the Hu era and they will write the same to Xi successor. The enmity is structural.

All of these witch hunts deliver more talents back to mainland than any 1000 talents program

Epilogue:

In a dark room filled with hooded folks. One of them is laughing that people are focussing on 'icon' (Star Sprangled Banner) than real concrete thing.

Huh, the article describes more of a power struggle inside the EGU than the AI itself.