[onlyrealcuzzo]

China never allow US AI in China, so they HAVE to build Chinese equivalents...

US immigration policy isn't a big factor.

China's got 1.8B people. If you don't think they've got the talent to pull this off, even if a lot of it leaves to live elsewhere, you're naive.

No one uses Baidu, but they built their own Google, and it's good.

They built their own Facebooks and Instagrams.

The US isn't the only place in the world where people can build software...

[petilon]

"China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot." --Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore.

[HDBaseT]

This quote feels pretty delusional even at the time (2015), although 11 years later, this quote (view) holds almost no water imo.