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Highlighting a tension between science’s universalist ideals and today’s geopolitical realities...
China’s place within international trade networks and global supply chains makes the propagation of Chinese shocks a global phenomenon.
Barriers to entry facing new firms are a major source of regional economic differences. Removing these barriers can play an important role in economic convergence and growth.
ebates about artificial intelligence (AI) often ask whether the United States and China are technologically decoupling. Using a new high-precision measure of AI patents, we show a more nuanced picture. AI innovation in the two countries is converging in scale and technological direction, but remains highly asymmetric in institutional organization, geographic diffusion, and cross-border knowledge dependence. Chinese AI patents rely heavily on US frontier technologies, while US reliance on Chinese innovation is more limited.