USCC warns that China's data strategy can compound its AI advantage
A US-China Economic and Security Review Commission report describes China treating data as a factor of production and strategic resource, developing exchanges and valuation practices, and prioritizing enterprise, industrial, and physical-world data for AI and embodied systems. It recommends a coordinated US national data strategy.
Why it matters: Model competition depends on more than chips and algorithms. Operational data rights, accounting, standards, localization, and access can shape enterprise AI and robotics advantages that are hard to reproduce from public web data.