Just skimmed through the report the article cites, and a few bits stood out to me.

Despite being the world’s richest economy and spending far more on health care than any other country, the United States has long experienced poorer health outcomes and shorter life expectancy than other high-income countries.

By 2019, the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States was outranked by countries like Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Albania, and Czechia.

Some states, particularly those in the South, adopted pandemic control policies associated with devastating losses in life expectancy, leaving their populations with shorter life expectancy than struggling countries like North Korea, Syria, and Libya.

Truly, capitalist efficiency at its finest!

It’s pretty explicitly laid out in the 15th 5 year plan outline released earlier this year. Under chapter 12, section 2, it reads:

鼓励多模态、智能体、具身智能、群体智能等技术创新，探索通用人工智能发展路径。

Which translates to:

Encourage technological innovation in areas such as multimodal systems, intelligent agents, embodied AI, and swarm intelligence, and explore development pathways for artificial general intelligence.

In my view, it seems like China is focusing more on the immediate applications and diffusion of AI, but also believe that pathways to AGI are worth researching and pursuing.

Some administration officials are, in fact, discussing ways to limit Chinese investment in the U.S. on national-security grounds, according to people familiar with the matter.

This is absolutely comical. They hate China so much they want to stop getting money from them.

Wait, archive.is is considered infamous? First I’ve heard of that descriptor

For comparison, China, the second largest silver producer, has an output around half of that of Mexico.

Mexico is the largest producer of silver, with nearly 25% of global production. They are also in the top ten producers of gold, copper, zinc and lithium.