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Podcast | China is building a market for data. Why isn’t America?

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Data has become one of the most important inputs in the modern economy, especially as access to high-quality information increasingly shapes the global race to develop artificial intelligence.

But while US policymakers tend to view data primarily through a national security lens, Beijing is pursuin...