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Robots and automation are taking over many industries in China. Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok dives into the restaurant industry, where the change for waiters has already been profound, she writes at Chozan
China's citizens have profoundly changed their view of the United States and their president, Trump, journalist Zhang Lijia writes at Democracy Asia. He is called the "nation builder", helping to improve the global standing of the country worldwide. "Many Chinese believe his erratic behaviour and foreign policy blunders weakened the United States and gave China greater diplomatic room to…
In the past, China purchased licenses to sell medicines from Western companies. But today, China sells its own medicines to the West. The previously attractive market has changed profoundly, says China lawyer Mark Schaub on the website of his law firm King&Wood. "For many international companies if the question is "How do we sell into China?" then they may be increasingly playing yesterday's…
AI and robots are taking over many industries in China. Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok sees how robots take over the country's warehouses; she explains on her blog, Chozan. "This is a fundamental rewiring of how goods move through the world’s largest manufacturing and e-commerce economy," she writes.
Western e-commerce companies have brought few new developments over the past decade, and only China offers new solutions we can learn from, argues Bjorn Ognibeni, co-founder of China Briefs at the E-Commerce Expo in Berlin. Learning from China is crucial for e-commerce in the West, he adds.
AI expert Alvin Wang Graylin explains how China's open-source strategy developed, not as a big plan by the communist party, but because they were forced by US policies, he says on Facebook.
In Northern China, the building of the new city Xiongan New Area is in full swing, writes China expert Ashley Dudarenok on her weblog. "These developments signaled serious progress toward creating a liveable, diverse city rather than a sterile administrative zone," she writes.
China has arrived as a superpower and wants its recognition as a superpower from the US, says Victor Shih, the Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations at the University of California, San Diego, in a discussion at the National Committee on US-China Relations. That is a major shift from the past, he adds.
Easy return policies have been a key in e-commerce, but AI is offering China's consumers an easy way to commit fraud, writes consumer expert Ashley Dudarenok on her weblog. A buyer purchases a product, photographs it in good condition, and feeds the image into an AI tool with a simple instruction: “Add mold spots to this fruit” or “Create a tear in this clothing item,” she writes.
AI expert Alvin Wang Graylin discusses the future of AI and the role the US and China might play at the Asia Society Northern California. You cannot talk about an AI race if there is no finish line, he argues. We talk about multiple races where nobody is really in charge, he adds.
