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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: Jeff Ding on US vs China AI and Lessons from Past Industrial Revolutions
Description: Jeff Ding is the leading US scholar on China and AI and author of one of the earliest China-focused Substacks, ChinAI.He recently published a fire paper called, “The diffusion deficit in scientific and technological power: re-assessing China’s rise.” It makes the argument that diffusion capacity (not just innovation capacity) is critical to economic growth — and China actually fares much worse in diffusion capacity than mainstream narratives imply.In particular, “In cases when the emerging power has a strong innovation capacity but weak diffusion capacity (diffusion deficit), it is less likely to sustain its rise than...