China-US tech ties strengthen amid challenges

The China-US cooperation in innovation often seems to be accompanied with noises of concern, which have grown increasingly louder in recent years as politicians in Washington take actions to contain the rapid development of Chinese tech companies in strategically important sectors.

But the actions of business leaders and scientific communities can speak even louder than such noises. For instance, despite all the talk in the US government of being wary of China's rise in artificial intelligence, a report from Stanford University showed that China-US collaboration on AI research has quintupled since 2010 and totaled 9,660 papers in 2021.

"What's clear is that the amount of collaboration between the US and China has gone up dramatically, and it has gone up much more than any collaboration between two other countries," said Raymond Perrault, an AI researcher and a distinguished computer scientist at SRI International, which was formerly known as the Stanford Research Institute, in the report.