news Scmp World 2026-07-09

China Academic Warns of Existential AI 'Knockout Game' with US

A Chinese academic warns that China must reform its innovation ecosystem or risk losing technological sovereignty to the US in an AI competition. The scholar emphasizes the need to strongly back open-source AI.

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