The TikTok playbook is now China’s AI strategy

China has to date run two large-scale experiments in capturing global technology market share. Call them the Huawei model and the TikTok model. The contrast between them explains why Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM — are succeeding today, and why their winning streak may eventually hit the same impasse TikTok did. By […]