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China’s AI Strategy Is Four Layers Deep. U.S. Export Controls Address One.

Six Chinese-language government documents, most never translated, show that what Washington examines as separate programs is a single integrated strategy already operating on domestic, architectural,

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Mar 31, 2026
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Earlier this month, an analysis in these pages argued that Beijing had moved beyond the chip war to a four-layer computing architecture, model, chip, cloud, application, that current U.S. export controls address at only one layer.[1] That piece was based on the 141-page planning document submitted to the National People’s Congress on March 5.[2] The arc…

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