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	Asia Daily Briefing - Strategic intelligence December 18, 2019

	Why China's AI players are struggling to evolve beyond surveillance China's technology industry   is constrained at home by  innovation shortfalls and  hampered overseas by its  companies' close links with  the state, making it far  from clear whether the  country, despite all the  hype, can become an AI  superpower anytime soon.
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