If you include the UK and Switzerland in Europe then Europe is clearly doing ahead of China.
The 1st and 3rd AI nations in Europe are not in the EU though, so if you restrict it to just the EU it falls well behind china
What does UK and Switzerland have that even remotely compares to what China has in terms of AI?
London has incredible AI talent but yeah, unfortunately most of them work on American tech. In another life Deepmind would not be owned by Google but alas.