Nine of the world’s top twenty internet companies are Chinese. The country is producing five times as many engineers as we do and is beginning to equal the United States in the skill of its researchers. More than half of the most-cited research papers on artificial intelligence in the world in 2018 were produced in China. And in recent years, Chinese teams have been winning major international competitions in facial and voice recognition. China’s technological progress extends well beyond advances in artificial intelligence. Its companies represent 80 percent of the commercial drone market.
