HANNA DOHMEN is a Senior Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Tech firms huge and small will converge in Shanghai this weekend to showcase their artificial intelligence innovations and support China's booming AI sector as it faces U.S. sanctions.

China is working to merge man and machine through brain-computer interface technology, as part of the country's ongoing efforts to compete in the AI race.

A participant tries out a wearable innovative device at the 24th China Internet Conference in Beijing on July 23, 2025. Photo: IC Global delegates attend the World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum held in Quanzhou, East China's Fujian Province, on July 25, 2025. Photo: VCG

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Business leaders who will speak at the main forum include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, MiniMax founder Yan Junjie and SenseTime CEO Xu Li.

Stephen Roach thinks the outcome of the AI race between China and the US will likely come down to which government invests more in basic theoretical research

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