China is facing a dilemma between promoting innovation and maintaining authoritarian control. The government is actively promoting the commercialization of high technologies while also tightening regulations on industries it disapproves of. AI is the hottest technology of 2023 and the Chinese government is attempting to control it by shoring up its “great firewall”. Western internet services are unavailable to most Chinese, making it difficult for them to access the same resources as the rest of the world.
