China embraces basic science as US downplays it amid AI race

SCMP TechAugust 4, 2026en

Senior Chinese official Cai Qi welcomed China’s scientific and technological elite at the seaside resort of Beidaihe, a sign that China’s leaders have begun their secretive annual summer retreat. The leaders’ gathering at the resort in Hebei province, east of Beijing, presages the party’s fifth plenum in October, the last before a leadership reshuffle next year. Cai, who ranks fifth in the Communist Party hierarchy and is often referred to as President Xi Jinping’s “chief of staff”, “extended...

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