Author: Bu Siying
For decades, the economic policy of the United States Republican Party has focused on low tax rates and free markets, regarding it as a sacred policy that must be fully defended to radical the practice of resisted any regulatory market.Middot, which holds the banner of the free market; Friedman and others proposed that society's determination to regulate freedom itself can be measured by its determination to regulate.However, in recent months, this belief has begun to relax quietly.This phenomenon turned out to be the most unable to learn from American conservatives mdash; mdash; China.
In February this year, the US Senate small enterprises and the Entrepreneurship Committee released a special report on Made in China 2025, which attributed China's rapid economic development and technological progress to the government's intervention economic policy.American free will quickly pointed out angrily that the argument reported by the Senate is a blatant betrayal of the orthodoxy of the free market, because the conclusion that the United States must adopt a form of national planning in order, Biotechnology and other emerging technologies keep up with China to ensure that they are not overtaken by it.
After the sacred report of the blasphemy market was released, Intel released a white paper in early March, calling on the US government to implement a comprehensive national strategy to promote the development of artificial intelligence technology.The white paper proposes that by strengthening supervision and opening up huge government databases, the United States has the ability to deal with China's increasingly severe technical threats and provide a good environment for innovation.The white paper also emphasizes that the Chinese government has gone in front of the United States in funding artificial intelligence startups and pose a threat to the United States.
The extraordinary technical strength of China has caused the American free market believers to mess with Mdash; MDASH; this is the case in the public sector nor the private sector.As China increases military expenses and has become the number one geopolitical opponent in the United States, the kind of unrestrained capitalism is no longer a common belief in American society.It is the economic system that the United States blows self -proclaimed that people's wage growth is stagnant and the phenomenon of universal de -industrialization, and more and more people who envy China have pointed out that in the past 40 years, the Chinese economy relies on national planning to make hundreds of millions of Chinese from poverty alleviation; nowadaysThe number of billionaires in Beijing exceeded New York.Although China's economic growth has slowed down and debt burdens are increasing, some experts believe that the Chinese economy may suffer a crisis, but these are not enough to extinguish the enthusiasm of the United States recently ignited in the Chinese model.
Senate reports are particularly confusing.Although the chairman of the committee Luberio has always been self -proclaimed with a firm free market defenders, his report acknowledged that China's anti -capitalist approach had worked.Looking at the report, it suddenly criticized China's economic system and suddenly affirmed its role in promoting scientific and technological progress.This tangled report not only believes that China's economic policy is destined to fail, and it will inevitably succeed.
Aside from the paranoia of the United States on China, this transformation may represent the reflection of the United States when facing the challenge of the artificial intelligence revolution.Artificial intelligence may reconstruct the global economy: in the past, the Internet and automobile innovation, it is the decentralization of information and transportation, and the essence of artificial intelligence is a centralized technology.To improve artificial intelligence algorithms, you must feed it huge amounts of data.As of now, technology giants such as Google, Tencent, Amazon and Alibaba have enough data to develop strong artificial intelligence algorithms.This centralization may indeed make a more powerful central regulatory agency necessary, because only this can prevent risks such as data abuse.
Intel's white paper wants government supervision just to help its business. On the one hand, the national strategy it calls is fundamentally contrary to the principles of the free market.Open a large amount of government data in the United States.Three years ago, the Financial Times wrote in an article that data is new oil and is a potential driving force for post -industrial economies.The country with the most data is most likely to develop revolutionary technology, so as to gain the economic dominance of this century.
At present, due to the huge population and network ecosystem, the amount of data in China is far more than the United States.Because of this advantage, former Vice President of Google Li Kaifu believes that China will surpass the West in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
This new military competition involves a major problem, which is privacy.Intel's White Paper actually uses public data to obtain private interests.In the banner of economic benefits, it must allow the United States to abandon the European model of strictly protecting data, and to embrace the Chinese model that is often criticized as the elder brother.
As early as China's reform and opening up, the United States two parties implemented a contact strategy for China, but the strategy did not achieve the expected results.Since the 1970s, the basic route of the United States' contact with China is based on the following concepts, that is, as China becomes richer, ordinary citizens will require greater political freedom; China will also move towards the West in terms of human rights protection and liberal values.Closer.Over the past few decades, Chinese affairs experts in the United States have wished that as China is getting richer, it has become closer and closer to democratic transformation.
The fact is exactly the opposite.China's management of the economy, politics and the Internet is very effective.At the same time, in order to enter the Chinese market, Western companies have split a cup from it and sacrifice the so -called American values.
In exchange for market access, more and more American companies are very happy to abandon liberal values.Today, Intel has called on the United States to implement a Chinese -style economic policy. Perhaps in the near future, the US data protection policy will change and gradually erode people's privacy.
For many years, the United States has been trying to induce China to make it more like themselves; now, some Americans seem to tend to become more like China.It is undeniable that China is indeed the most powerful geopolitical opponent in the United States, but sometimes it is more vigilant than the opponent itself.
