{"id":6560,"date":"2026-04-17T05:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/6560\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:50:31","slug":"china-willing-to-buy-or-steal-us-tech-to-get-ahead-in-ai-race-congress-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/6560\/","title":{"rendered":"China willing to \u2018buy\u2019 or \u2018steal\u2019 US tech to get ahead in AI race, Congress told"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, lawmakers and experts accused China<\/a> of buying \u201cwhat they can\u201d and stealing \u201cwhat they cannot\u201d in the global artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> race, while warning the United States\u2019 immigration and research policies could be hindering innovation necessary to stay ahead.\u201cThe pattern is clear. China is dependent on our tech stack to continue their AI development. China is willing to buy what they can, and steal what they cannot, to advance their AI ambitions,\u201d said John Moolenaar<\/a>, House Select Committee on China chairman, in his opening statement.The US and China remain in a highly competitive race for global AI leadership. While the US had an early lead with models like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT<\/a>, developments such as the emergence of models from Chinese firms like DeepSeek<\/a> in 2025, and Beijing\u2019s push to become a world leader in the sector by 2030, have begun to close the gap between the two superpowers.Earlier this year, the US<\/a> unveiled an AI export initiative aimed at securing America\u2019s leadership and countering China\u2019s influence.<\/p>\n

\u201cChinese AI companies continue to rely on American chips,\u201d Moolenaar alleged. \u201cAs the founder of Chinese AI champion DeepSeek has said, our problem has never been funding. It\u2019s the embargo on high-end chips. So it should come as no surprise that Chinese AI firms are doing everything they can to legally and illegally acquire US chips to work around export controls.\u201d<\/p>\n

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05:38<\/p>\n

AI entrepreneur Esther Wong on pursuing knowledge to achieve many forms of success<\/p>\n

AI entrepreneur Esther Wong on pursuing knowledge to achieve many forms of success<\/p>\n

During the hearing, witnesses stressed the importance of compute \u2013 the processing power used to train and run AI models \u2013 in gaining a technological edge over China. Dmitri Alperovitch, chairman of the Washington-based think tank Silverado Policy Accelerator, called compute the \u201csingle most important input to winning\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, lawmakers and experts accused China of buying \u201cwhat they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,2765,25,580,6013,6010,6012,157,6014,6011,6015,6008,6009],"class_list":{"0":"post-6560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-research","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-chatgpt","12":"tag-compute","13":"tag-deepseek","14":"tag-john-moolenaar","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-tech-innovation","17":"tag-us-house-select-committee-on-china","18":"tag-us-immigration","19":"tag-us-china-competition","20":"tag-us-china-tech-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}