Exclusive interview with Dong Jie Lin: Is Beijing’s decision to engage in a technology war with the United States a wise one?

At the just concluded National People's Congress, Chinese officials celebrated DeepSeek's micro-innovation and praised the Chinese model, which focuses on artificial intelligence for future development. Dr. Dong Jielin, a scholar of science and technology industry policy and history of science and technology, reminded Chinese decision-makers not to be led astray by the US-China technology war.