“German car manufacturers were late in getting involved with the electric car, but they are better adapted to the tastes of Europeans,” says Dan Wang.
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For around six years, China watchers around the world have been eagerly awaiting a letter from a technology expert from China on the first day of January. He comes from Dan Wang, who has been observing China’s technological rise as an analyst for Gavekal Dragonomics in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong for the past six years. He has recently been a visiting scholar at the renowned Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, Connecticut.
Wang is one of the best experts on the Chinese tech scene in the world. In addition to guest articles for the New York Times, Bloomberg and Foreign Policy, for example, he writes a long analysis in the form of a letter once a year, in which he examines the current developments in the country in depth – culturally, technologically and politically.
In an interview with the Handelsblatt, Wang describes where China is the world technological leader and explains why there have been no breakthroughs in the commercial use of artificial intelligence in the People’s Republic so far.
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