That race for AI superiority may be behind some recent high-profile events between governments. The Huawei case, where the United States government charged China’s Huawei and its officers of intellectual property theft as well as sanctions violations, offers clues to that race. It is no secret that Huawei has ambitions to build an infrastructure backbone to capture data flows. Its own tagline, “Building a fully connected, intelligent world,” captures it succinctly.

