US-China trade war is about AI and intellectual property, not soybeans
Jordi Visser · Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92) · Mar 25, 2019 · at 1:08:04
Jordi Visser breaks down the underlying structural drivers of US-China geopolitical and economic tensions.
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“And that's why when people talk about the trade war with China, the paper was specifically said, this is not about soybeans. This is about censors in everything. And it's a race to artificial intelligence supremacy. It's about intellectual property.”
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