The numbers that Brown and Singh gathered, all from public sources, told the story. China participated in more than 10 percent of all venture deals in 2015, the report found, focusing on early-stage innovations critical to both commercial and military uses: artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, financial technology, and gene-editing. When they broke down who was investing in US-based venture-backed companies between 2015 and 2017, American investors ranked first, with $59 billion in investment. Europe was second, with $36 billion. And China was right behind,
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