A global technological revolution is under way, with China at the helm. China’s leaders call it the mobilization of “new quality productive forces,” referring to “great changes unseen in a century.” In the increasingly hamstrung West, each headline-grabbing advance is read as another “Sputnik moment,” giving rise to fresh anxieties and the push for an ambitious policy response. Such was the case with DeepSeek—a phenomenally efficient and open-source large language model that sucked trillions out of the Wall Street AI bubble—and the Chinese probe that brought back to Earth the first samples of the far side of the moon, in the process accelerating the space race on militarized satellites with significant implications for the US in the Indo-Pacific.
Read full article by Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie in Phenomenal World
