America’s AI race against China gets a boost

China, the largest police state known to man, has prioritized winning the AI arms race. If Beijing achieves its objective, it will have the potential to achieve its foremost goal: supplanting the U.S. as the global superpower. Fortunately, America has a built-in advantage. The U.S. remains the world leader in innovation, capable of challenging convention and orthodoxy and thinking anew. By contrast, Communist China is a closed society. Societies that don’t tolerate dissent or free thinking start with an immediate disadvantage in the realms of innovation and technology. But China does have something that America has heretofore lacked. China’s economic…