If you’ve followed headlines about artificial intelligence, you’ve probably heard the neat, worrying story: the U.S. and China are racing for AI supremacy - America’s model is freewheeling private innovation, China’s is a tightly controlled state plan. It’s a compelling story, but incomplete. New research by Lin Zhu, Wilson Wong, Alfred M. Wu (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy), and Minqiang Zhu uncovers a surprising twist: while national governments head in opposite directions, local governments in both countries are converging on strikingly similar solutions. That convergence could open quieter, more practical channels for cooperation—right beneath the grand geopolitical drama.

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