It’s hard to know what’s real and what‘s not in China. Or what’s safe and what’s not. See tofu dreg construction, electric car fires, contaminated baby food, and a long list of other things. But I have to say, from the outside, it seems like they are making very strong progress on all things software except MAYBE building a native OS for themselves. On AI, I think the only bottleneck is perhaps access to Nvidia GPUs but even that has workarounds for them (through third parties that end up purposely or accidentally selling them GPUs). Eventually that’ll fall too. Without protectionist strategies, things like their robotaxis could be very destabilizing to other countries’ economies by putting people out of jobs in a short amount of time.
talking to people from countries where chinese cars are sold one can easily conclude that most of chinese cars are not alike their other products - mostly
garbage. bricked all the time, no parts, no repair shops, no infrastracture… while they may gain short-term traction it won’t last