Going Global: China’s AI Strategy for Technology, Open Source, Standards and Talent — By Liu Shaoshan

"As the United States increases obstacles to trade and to the sharing and export of technology … A strategic window of opportunity has opened for Chinese AI to ‘go global’."

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Jul 10, 2025

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Today’s edition opens with an introduction by Jordan Schneider, founder and editor-in-chief of the indispensable ChinaTalk, a leading podcast and newsletter on US-China tech relations. I’m forever grateful for his support a couple of years ago, which enabled Sinification to secure funding when it needed it most. — Thomas

In this article, Liu Shaoshan — a leading figure in China’s embodied AI research and a state-designated “high-end overseas talent”— proposes a roadmap for Chinese AI dominance cueing off America’s successful diffusion of TCP/IP protocols in the late 20th century. Just as influence over the internet afforded the USA “a truly global mechanism of discursive control”, Liu argues, AI diffusion and the standards exported along with AI systems will be key to power projection in the 21st century.

He outlines four strategic levers for achieving open-source dominance — technological competitiveness, open-source ecosystem development, international standard-setting and talent int…

Going Global: China’s AI Strategy for Technology, Open Source, Standards and Talent — By Liu Shaoshan

"As the United States increases obstacles to trade and to the sharing and export of technology … A strategic window of opportunity has opened for Chinese AI to ‘go global’."

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