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When Britain was in its second lockdown last November and the economy was contracting, China’s quarterly growth rate was hitting 6.5%. Figures last week showed that for the full year, the world’s second-largest economy could boast a growth rate of 2.3% while all its rivals in Europe and the Americas were going backwards. The trend could be traced back to Beijing’s efforts to tackle the virus – albeit after a period of denial – and keep infection. ....
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In a low-rise building overlooking a busy intersection in Beijing, Ji Rong Wen, a middle-aged scientist with thin-rimmed glasses and a mop of black hair, excitedly describes a project that could advance one of the hottest areas of artificial intelligence. Wen leads a team at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), a government-sponsored research lab that’s testing a powerful new language algorithm something similar to GPT-3, a program revealed in June by researchers at OpenAI that digests large amounts of text and can generate remarkably coherent, free-flowing language. “This is a big project,” Wen says with a big grin. “It takes a lot of computing infrastructure and money.” ....
Home America’s big China question America’s big China question Resetting relations will be near the top of President Biden’s inbox. Three new books point to the scale of the challenge ahead and how to master it World Economy News 20 Jan 2021 • 7 min read Before his death in 1994, Richard Nixon reflected that his much-acclaimed diplomatic masterstroke the opening of US relations with China might have been a mistake. “We may have created a Frankenstein,” the former US president said in an interview. The comment represented an early inkling of what has become a deep foreboding. As Joe Biden takes office as America’s 46th president, a huge China challenge is sitting in his inbox. ....
Nigel Inkster Review by Iain Macwhirter CHINA has “a heart of glass” according to Nigel Inkster. Despite commanding immense power, its government is prone to taking childish offence at real or imagined slights by foreigners. We saw an example recently when Chinese agents posted doctored images of an Australian soldier apparently murdering an Afghan child. The Australians had aroused Beijing’s wrath by calling for an independent UN investigation into the origins of Covid in Wuhan. China has refused to countenance any investigation not conducted by its own agencies, which are of course, directly answerable to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Inkster is satisfied that, while China did not invent coronavirus, it tried to cover it up. Chinese authorities delayed informing the World Health Organisation about the spread of Covid-19 in Wuhan and gave misleading assurances that it was not being transmitted between humans. ....