The rise of Chinese ai chat bought deep seekers, taken the world by storm.
trend. Chinese apps are rising up the charts around the world, tiktok, cap cut, sheen, teemu, to name a few.
And it's not just on our phones.
China is becoming dominant in many other areas of
tech. Look at cars. It's overtaken the previous epicentres of motoring, selling more than any other country, thanks to hit electric car makers like b YD A lot of this success comes from China being the world's biggest battery maker now, too, and solar panels.
China is responsible for an estimated 80 to 95% of the global supply chain by 2028.
It's predicted that 60% of the world's renewable energy will be generated in China.
In drones too. China rules the skies.
Next time you hear that buzzing above your head, there's a 70% chance it's a DJ drone made in the city of Shenzhen.
Three of the world's top ten drone makers are Chinese.
In the futuristic world of quantum computers, chinese scientists publish more quantum related research papers annually than any other country, and they're even ahead of the general leaders, the US, in some areas of quantum computing development.
And it's the same picture in Ai Chinese A iphones now issue more patents than any other country.
And the rise of Deep seek shows its capable of challenging the dominant US giants with products too.
So how has China done all this, when it's all part of a long term plan?
In 2015, the Chinese government set out an ambitious project called Made in China 2025.
It wanted to move away from being the worlds factory for low cost goods to a global tech leader, responsible for its own supply chain of cutting edge tech.
made in China. 2025, in my opinion, was largely successful.
So in many industries, like China is catching up with the leading edge.
And in the industries China even leading even cars and five GS batteries, solar energies.
Now, even in the Aiji of China, become one of the players across ten target technologies.
The plan set out more than 250 many goals, and according to analysis from South China Morning Post, 86% of them have been ticked off.
Some targets like electric vehicles and renewable energy production.
How far exceeded the targets? South China Morning Post is sometimes accused of being pro China, but made in China 2025 has been held a success by many other analysts too.
So how has China done it?
What China has been moderately successful at least, and you know, someone saying, incredibly successful at doing, is using its sort of state back capitalism system, whereby the government really sets a research agenda, sets a funding agenda, bringing foreign researchers and enticing them to stay in China, or at least to give their innovations and ideas over to Chinese companies, requiring businesses from outside of China, oftentimes to set up joint ventures with Chinese ventures.
These are all sort of tools that China has used to help achieve these ambitions.
According to US Congress Research, the Chinese government plan to raise or spend $1.5 trillion on grants for research development or buying foreign companies.
According to the report, more than 627000000000 had been spent by 2020.
Research centers sprung up in city hubs centered around various technologies.
Also, the US and its allies have accused China of short cutting some of its tech innovation by stealing intellectual property through hacking, e.g.
US aircraft makers. China has always denied this.
Made in China 2025 got so successful that after just a few years, the government stopped using the term as it was antagonizing rivals.
But it was too late. Over the years, the West have imposed restrictions and sanctions on China regarding sensitive technologies.
But this huge external threat has weakened up the Chinese and kind of forced them to pursue a self sufficiency strategy in this advanced technology.
There is an old saying in China, life always finds its own way out.
Huaway is a great example of this.
In around 2019, it was top of the world in five year equipment.
It had a huge market share in mobile phones too.
All of that took a major hit though, when the US led widespread sanctions against the company, citing national security concerns around spying.
Hallway's market share shrank,
and it couldn't get the Michael
chips it needed to keep innovating.
But it pivoted into microship manufacturing, and is now a major player in that too.
In 2023, it released a phone with the microchip far beyond what the rest of the world thought was possible for the company or the country.
A similar situation happened with the viral new chatbot Deep Seek.
The firm says it couldn't get the most powerful chips to train its models, so it says it may do with older ones and innovated new
techniques. They built the impressive bot for far less money, with far less kit for the us.
It came as a shock Deep seek ai from a Chinese company should be a wake up call for our industries that we need to be laser focused on.
Tiktok too has taken the West by surprise.
It's the 1st non US social network to succeed in the last ten years.
Its enormous success is under the spotlight, though, and under threat from potential intervention by the US on national security grounds.
But she and and Timu are proving worthy challenges in e commerce now, too, thanks to combining china's cheap goods with innovative app technology.
But China hasn't succeeded in all its 2025 goals.
It's still years behind other countries in chipmaking, with progress set to get even worse thanks to more sanctions and controls.
Plus the U-S government and private firms are throwing hundreds of billions of dollars into staying ahead in chip tech.
This increased researching development funding, the United States leads the world in the industries of the future.
and in January, the US celebrated a commitment from tech giants to invest a potential $500 billion into infrastructure for AI.
And it's all taking place right here in America.
Other industrialized countries like Germany and Japan have also launched counterplants too.
But there is no doubt that a new high tech leader has emerged with big ambitions, deep pockets and plenty of patients.
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