Ludovica Meacci
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PhDing @CSDS_Brussels | Associate Fellow @RUSI_org | US-China-EU, tech, international security | usual disclaimers
Ding Xuexiang丁薛祥 is the most important Chinese official you’ve never heard of. He’s the head of China’s Central Science & Technology Commission 中央科技委员会as well as Vice Premier and Politburo Standing Committee member. He’s an engineer by training and was brought on by Xi Jinping as a close aide from their Shanghai days to oversee China’s tech-industrial strategy. His job and the goal of the CSTC more broadly is to help coordinate efforts across China’s fragmented S&T ecosystem, including ministries (NDRC, MOST, MIIT), SOEs, private firms, national labs, and other S&T organizations. The CSTC, a Party rather than a state institution, was established in 2023 and represents an elevation of China’s overall S&T efforts to the highest level of the Party-state system, particularly given China’s urgent push for tech self-reliance in the face of US-led tech controls.
It now takes longer to read a paper than write a paper. Solve for equilibrium.
Chinese chatbots are likely censored by the Chinese government, and will often refuse to answer or provide inaccurate answers to politically charged questions, regardless of whether they are posed in English or Chinese. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/vmfp50Yl8KC
