Why China's AI boom is raising new questions for the US | DW News

德国之声新闻：中国人工智能产业蓬勃发展，给美国带来全新难题

For years, the United States has tried to slow China's technological rise by restricting access to advanced chips and semiconductor technology. But new trade figures suggest China's AI-powered export machine is accelerating. Trade in AI-related computing hardware jumped by more than 56% in the first half of 2026, hel drive record exports of chips, electronics and advanced technology.

多年来，美国一直通过限制中国获取高端芯片与半导体技术，试图延缓中国科技崛起。但最新贸易数据显示，依托人工智能驱动的中国出口产业正加速增长。2026 年上半年，人工智能相关计算硬件贸易额增幅超 56%，推动芯片、电子产品与高端技术产品出口创下历史新高。

Do these figures suggest US efforts to contain China's AI industry are falling short? Or is China simply benefiting from an explosion in global demand for AI infrastructure?

这些数据是否意味着美国遏制中国人工智能产业的举措收效甚微？抑或中国只是搭上了全球人工智能基础设施需求爆发的红利？

以下是各国网友的评论：

alloskostas8747
Instead of trying to contain China, USA and Europe should focus on advancing themselves.

与其一门心思打压遏制中国，美国和欧洲不如埋头发展壮大自己。

 

qwamie
Exactly. America is devolving into a corrupt, gambling, welfare state. Productivity means nothing, captain bone spurs coined that - earning 2 billion personally in a year, on zero crown achievements. Losing has never been more of the national identity.

完全同意。美国如今越来越堕落，到处滋生贪腐、全民投机，国家高度依赖福利体系。劳动产出早已无足轻重，那位饱受诟病的前总统就是例子：个人一年赚20亿美元，却没办成一件拿得出手的大事。现如今，事事受挫、处处失利反倒成了美国的标签。

 

ienyeeTien
they have no electricity

他们那边连电力供应都跟不上

 

xerichu
Go China! Defeat and overcome Amerikkkan and European racism :)

中国加油！彻底击碎美欧根深蒂固的种族偏见

 

walhdamaskus2408
China advansing themselves by win win corporation and open sourcing common prosperts. The west advancing themselves throught protectionism, isolation and tackling others from advancing.

中国靠互利合作、技术开源、共同繁荣实现发展；西方却依靠贸易保护、孤立排外，处处阻挠别国进步。

 

JigilJigil
They are advancing fast and at the same time making sure that a vicious auth rian entity won't have access to those advancements that could be used against them by that evil entity.

西方国家一边快速发展科技，一边严防强势国家获取相关技术，避免对方利用这些先进技术反过来威胁自身。

 

finestfresh
China: focus on self development
West: focus on contain China
Such a shame

中国一心搞自身发展

西方满脑子遏制中国

实在令人唏嘘

 

bin.s.s.
Only if the west has sufficient talent and electricity.

前提是西方得拥有足够人才与充足电力才行。

 

 

LakeVon-g1v
Western media is always talking about how to contain, destroy, slowdown etc etc etc someone's effort to be independent from western hegemony while in the same breath painting themselves as saints who care about human ri hts and freedom, whatever that means.

西方媒体整天琢磨怎么打压、摧毁、拖慢其他国家摆脱西方霸权、谋求自主发展的努力，转头又把自己塑造成捍卫人*自由的圣人，说辞前后矛盾。

 

ackbleiham8475
Send your journalists to China to get first hand information ( the world is so far behind)

派你们的记者亲自来中国实地走访，获取一手真实消息吧，外界对中国的认知实在太过落后。

 

francoislechanceux5818
China has not invented anything new and disruptive since the last 1000 years

过去一千年来，中国没有诞生任何具有颠覆性的全新发明。

 

emmashouse
How does China “surpass the USA by copying it”? Logically doesn’t make sense (unless it’s cope)

说中国靠抄袭赶超美国，从逻辑上根本说不通，无非是输家找借口罢了。

 

JigilJigil
Not copying, more like IP theft.

都算不上单纯模仿，本质就是窃取知识产权。

 

emmashouse
@JigilJigil you mean like stealing the entire corpus of human knowledge and training models on them? The entire premise of LLMs? Of which the western models have been found guilty? It’s all sour grapes. “You plagiarized my polarization machine!!!” “You are beating me by copying me!!!”

照你这么说，那西方大模型抓取全人类海量知识训练模型，算不算窃取？西方多款AI模型早已被曝出存在同类问题。纯粹是吃不到葡萄说葡萄酸，一边喊“你抄袭我的对立算法”，一边叫嚷“你靠模仿超过我”。

 

scaryscarface
You're clueless. They copy to match quickly, but they have their own R&D to help surpass

你根本不懂。中国借鉴技术是为快速补齐短板，同时自有完整自研体系，依靠自主研发实现超越。

 

5446gk
この程度の理解しか無いから、ドイツは衰退しているのだろう

正因为认知水平只有这点，德国才会不断走向衰落。

 

lagrangewei
they decline because they fail to maintain a health relation with their neighbour Russia. peace build prosperity.

西方走向衰败，根源是没能和邻国俄罗斯维持良性关系，和平才能孕育繁荣。

 

Grisly_Noems_Pup
実のところ、世界全体が衰退の一途をたどっています。しかし、これは動物たちにとっては朗報だと思います。例えば、太地町のイルカたちは、人間がいなくなるのを待ちきれないほどでしょう。

事实上整个世界都在持续走下坡路，但对动物来说这或许是件好事。比如太地町的海豚，恐怕早就盼着人类消失了。

 

justeddm
US ai 100$
China ai 10$ for similar performance

同等性能下，美国AI服务收费100美元，中国AI仅需10美元。

 

sayedfraz7384
Typical hypocritical Western media trying to contain any non-Western countries that rise. They did it with Japan during the Plaza Accord, and now the US is saying we will not allow India to grow like China.

西方媒体向来虚伪，但凡非西方国家崛起就想方设法打压。当年通过广场协议限制日本，如今美国又放话绝不允许印度复制中国的发展之路。

 

baduedward5399
Always thinking of kee others down, Evil West and USA

西方和美国一心打压别国，居心险恶。

 

Welly6858
If China has not developed strong military, the US and its dos will invade for their advanced economic development.

如果中国没有建设强大国防，美国及其盟友定会觊觎我们的经济发展成果，悍然发动入侵。

 

JigilJigil
in better words, always thinking of kee vicious evil regimes down, the West and the US

换种说法：欧美一心打压他们口中所谓的专制敌对政权。

 

olfwarrior2024
China literally has AI from the west. China just copies stuff from other countries.

中国的AI技术完全源自西方，只会照搬别国成果。

 

francoislechanceux5818
China has not invented anything new and disruptive since the last 1000 years

过去一千年来，中国没有诞生任何具有颠覆性的全新发明。

 

TienyeeTien
the only threat to US national security is US itself. when 40 million ppl dont have health insurance US is already in trouble

真正威胁美国国家安全的只有美国自己。四千万民众没有医保，美国自身早已深陷危机。

 

FlashRetired
I mean DeepSeek, GLM, etc. Chinese AI models are second option, after the AI models created by the US. So, i don't know what you are even talking about? Some people will only prefer to buy BMW, but that doesn't mean Audi is a bad product.

像深度求索、智谱清言这类国产大模型，虽次于美国AI产品，但绝非一无是处。好比有人只偏爱宝马，不代表奥迪品质差劲。

 

ineapplesareyummy6352
Just remember when China wins, the rest of humanity wins. Next time the US wants to sanction another country, and use technology access or financial market access as tools of geopolitical coercion, they can pivot all their trade towards China. China is offering the world an alternative. A world where the US shall be toothless and powerless to interfere with the sovereignty of nations is precisely the world order that the global majority desires.

要记住，中国发展壮大，全人类都会受益。今后美国再想用技术封锁、金融限制当作地缘政治大棒制裁他国时，各国就能全面转向和中国开展贸易。中国给全球提供了全新选择。绝大多数国家都期盼建立新秩序，让美国再也无力干涉各国主权。

 

coolwalk11
I support china and live in America. What’s the problem!? China is America and the world’s greatest ally!

我定居美国，但我支持中国，这有什么问题？中国是美国乃至全世界最好的合作伙伴！

 

OmMmZz
AI is about applications, China commissions more robots that US and EU combined, China is an electro state already, and that's your answer to who is leading with AI in the physical world, not language models

AI比拼的是落地应用。中国部署的工业机器人总量超过美欧总和，电力基建规模全球顶尖。单看实体产业智能化落地，中国才是领跑者，不能只盯着语言大模型。

 

Trueye-sl2mr
USA need a lot of AI desperately as its leaders lack intelligence

美国高层缺乏远见，急需依靠AI弥补短板。

 

colafish2152
Thanks to U.S. export controls on AI chips, vast market opportunities have created for China domestic chip manufacturers, such as Huawei and Cambricon.

美国出台AI芯片出口管制反倒成全了国内芯片企业，华为、寒武纪等厂商迎来巨大市场机遇。

 

lightjunction7373
I hope US government thinks the same way

但愿美国政府能想明白这一点。

 

Sendu7
The winner will be who's model of AI can be most trusted not to use backdoor tactics to steal information or include sabotage abilities.

未来胜出的，是能让各国放心、不会预留后门窃取数据或暗藏破坏程序的AI体系。

 

JigilJigil
You mean China's mastery.

你说的就是中国掌握的AI技术吧。

 

tzerpa9446
When free market means it's free only for you, but not for anybody else.

所谓自由市场，到头来只允许自己获利，不允许别国分一杯羹。

 

francoislechanceux5818
China has not invented anything new and disruptive since the last 1000 years

过去一千年来，中国没有诞生任何具有颠覆性的全新发明。

 

repero_one1028
then why over 80 percent of silicon valley startups use chinese open source models then it is all about cost advantage customizable and good enough

既然国产AI一无是处，硅谷八成初创企业为什么在用中国开源大模型？核心就是性价比高、可灵活定制，性能完全够用。

 

Faan-v5b
If America wants to be transparent, publish all the names who had invented America's top ai models,there would be a lot of Chinese sounding names

美国要是敢透明公开顶尖AI研发人员名单，你会发现大量华裔研究者。

 

francoislechanceux5818
China has not invented anything new and disruptive since the last 1000 years

过去一千年来，中国没有诞生任何具有颠覆性的全新发明。

 

williamwatitwa3534
What will the the USA policy after china gets its own high end chips and systems, I fear for the USA but I celebrate for thr rest of the world because we will have high end Chinese chips with high end ai models

等中国实现高端芯片与全套技术自主后，美国会出台什么对策？我不看好美国，但为全球各国感到高兴，届时大家都能用上中国高端芯片与先进大模型。

 

Aendavenau
Considering how much larger Chinas economy is than the US and how many more engineers etc they have its only a matter of time before these last areas of relative US advantage are gone as well.

中国经济体量、工程师储备都远超美国，美国仅存的科技优势被抹平只是时间问题。

 

 

jimkong1223
OpenAI and Antropic will need government bailouts in a few years

不出几年，OpenAI和Anthropic就得靠政府拨款才能撑下去。

 

zenzender3790
GLM 5.2 is... unbelievably intelligent.
I have never came across an AI more intelligent.

智谱GLM5.2的智能程度超乎想象，我用过的所有AI里没有能比得上它的。

 

lildragonsplace
China can out manufacture / export US and EU

中国制造业产能与出口规模远超美欧。

 

Mecistops_Cataphractus
Just the name "center for new American security" sounds like a nest of vultures on a defense contractor payroll

光听“新美国安全中心”这个名字就知道，这机构就是军工财团养的一群投机说客。

 

deragoth4250
America first means Europe will be dependent on USA. I mean sure get Europe to restrict it tech export to China so USA is first. But not once have I heard Americans talking about improving their allies AI capability. No, every single time they say don’t waste time building your own AI, just send all the investment money to USA.

“美国优先”本质就是绑定欧洲、让欧洲依赖美国。美国逼迫盟友限制对华技术出口，巩固自身领先地位，却从不帮助欧洲发展本土AI，反倒总劝欧洲别自主研发，直接把资金投给美国。

 

aasheep4188
Only China and US , where ‘ global ‘ coming from ?

通篇只谈中美，何来“全球”一说？

 

skywire5595
In US alone China AI models already capture 45% users by big and small firms. Washington so ironic always thinks that without them China can't function

仅在美国市场，大小企业使用国产AI的占比就达到45%。华盛顿实在可笑，总以为离开美国中国就无法运转。

 

JeremyLloyd
As a software engineer I'd say Chinese AI models are 90% as good as US ones and cost about 15%. I switched to GLM 5.2 from Claude and saved a ton of $$$. I would say Chinese models are closing that gap every day.

我是软件开发工程师，客观来说国产AI性能达到美国产品九成水平，成本却仅为对方一成五。我把Claude换成智谱GLM5.2后省下一大笔开支，国产大模型和海外产品的差距每天都在缩小。

 

M17Tom
Why is China a threat to Europe?

中国怎么就成欧洲的威胁了？

 

charlessmyth
Unlike the US, China, with its better curated and more limited in scope, data stacks, does not have to contend with the sheer volume of noise / data, for which, the US needs more and faster processing power, to deal with, in a timely manner.

中国的数据经过规范筛选、范围精简，不用处理海量无效冗余信息；而美国要消化庞杂杂乱的数据，只能不断堆砌更高算力，才能及时完成运算。