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The night of November 6 last year was one to remember for young people across China. In Wuhan, thousands thronged the streets to celebrate, chanting “EDG!” “Niubi!”, employing a somewhat coarse Chinese phrase. At one music conservatory, students belted out the operatic aria Nessun Dorma above the din of a marching band.
A sudden burst of excitement about the Communist Party’s forthcoming 6th Plenum in Beijing? Or had China’s normally terrible national men’s soccer team won
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In 2021, after four decades of exponential growth in China’s economy, Xi Jinping revived the party slogan “common prosperity” in order to address the country’s glaring inequality. The policy priority was suddenly everywhere: in speeches, in newspapers and in schools. But now, three years later, it has all but disappeared from public discourse even as the country’s economic inequality festers. What happened?
The researcher and former OpenAI board member discusses who holds the advantage in artificial intelligence and the chances of the U.S. and China working together to regulate the technology.
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