… During Donald Trump's first administration and throughout Joe Biden's presidency, the United States imposed strict export controls on components, software, and platforms related to advanced computing in an effort to slow China's technological progress. …
… In China, meanwhile, the situation looks very different. …
… The other was an anti-regulation stream, for whom it was beneficial to point to China as a bogeyman: “If you regulate us, you let China win.” Would you point to any particular moment as a trigger? …
… Over the last two years, the Trump administration has sought to clear regulation and red tape that could hinder America’s AI innovation and potentially hurt the country’s competitiveness with China. …
… And I think the theory behind this, there's a couple different ideas about why China is doing this. One is that it doesn't have as much access to compute. So this is the export controls theory. …
… A much larger structural transformation is actually taking place in China today. Previously, the focus was on low-priced electric vehicle models, but now price is no longer the primary point of competition. …
… The Trump administration’s new framework is an attempt to strike a balance between promoting competition in the AI industry and maintaining safety. …