China widens lead in AI, remote sensing, clean tech as US faces structural limits

The Global AI Summit kicks off at the Saudi capital Riyadh, September 13, 2022. PHOTO:Twitter Al Arabiya

"China is going to win the AI race." The remark sent ripples through Silicon Valley and beyond when Jensen Huang, CEO of US chipmaking giant Nvidia, made it at an AI summit in London earlier this month. Huang, whose company dominates the global AI chip market, later softened his position, saying China is merely "nanoseconds behind America."

But Greg Slabaugh, Professor of Computer Vision and AI at Queen Mary University of London, is convinced that China has "already won" the AI race. And he made a startling revelation to back up his claim: of all the papers presented at the 2025 International Conference on Computer Vision in Hawaii, half were authored by Chinese researchers – far outstripping the US at 17%. Factor in Chinese nationals working abroad, and the gap would widen even further.

Three years before Huang's candid acknowledgement, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute had reported that China leads in 57 out of 64 critical technologies – from quantum sensors and AI to robotics and se

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