US-China in a biotech and AI Race?

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Do you believe that a scientific advancement race in these two areas is the major tug-of-war in world power?

Interesting Excerpts below
http://thediplomat.com/2017/08/the-great-us-china-biotechnology-and-artificial-intelligence-race/


Explain the motivation behind Chinese investment in U.S. genomics and artificial intelligence (AI).
With large public and private investments inland and in the U.S., China plans to become the next AI-Genomics powerhouse, which indicates that these technologies will soon converge in China.


Using AI systems to understand how the functioning of our genomes impacts our health is of strategic importance for biodefense.

Gaining access to increasingly large U.S. genomic data-sets gives China a knowledge advantage into leading the next steps in bio-military research. Combining host susceptibility information with pathogenic targeted design, malicious actors could engineer pathogens that are tailored to overcome the immune system or the microbiome of specific populations.