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U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

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machines, and led to the fastest-growing economy in the world since the 1980s. In 2012, Zhang Yiming , a Microsoft Research Asia alum , founded the video-sharing platform’s parent company, ByteDance , which today is one of the world’s most successful AI companies. Ironically, China is a competitor that the United States abetted.

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