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Why China Can’t Win the AI-Led Industrial Revolution

By Di Guo, Chenggang Xu - Project Syndicate | December 15, 2025

History has consistently shown that industrial revolutions require free institutions and robust demand to support ongoing entrepreneurship and the commercialization of new, productivity-enhancing products and services. With its system of totalitarian party-state rule, China checks none of these boxes.

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