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China rewires the rules of its tech contest with Washington, and not only on chips
Beijing's new five-year plan folds AI literacy into primary school. The bottleneck in the U.S.–China tech contest is shifting from silicon to trained minds, and Washington is still arguing about chips.

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Desk note: Monexus treats the China-AI story as a human-capital contest first and a chip contest second, inverting the dominant Western wire framing without dismissing the hardware dimensions of the race.
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