Battleground 2 – Geopolitics – Ai and Power

The Industrial Revolution enabled Britain to surpass its European rivals and become the world's largest empire, a position it held for almost two centuries. There are some parallels between Britain's rise to world domination and China's ambitions to achieve the same. Artificial Intelligence is to China's twenty-first-century rise to power what the Industrial Revolution was to Britain's ascendance in the late 1700s. However, unlike Britain, China's recent rise to power is not its first experience of historical greatness. China has a long history as a preeminent nation with an advanced, regionally dominant civilization.