US efforts to secure AI supply chains are doomed to fail, says Chinese academic

The latest US AI and supply chain initiatives are doomed to fail, according to a prominent political scientist who also argued that efforts to restrict US companies’ access to low-cost Chinese models would backfire. Instead, he argued, the United States and China should collaborate on driving global economic development to generate the external demand needed to sustain long-term growth. “US frameworks such as Pax Silica, the chip alliance and the rare earth alliance explicitly target a third...