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I agree with your overall assessment RE the early clues. China is, indeed, pivoting pragmatically when it needs to. It may be too little too late for AI dominance, but so what? As long as China is the main trading partner for dozens of nations, their prominence on the global stage isn't going anywhere.

Do you see any downside from the phonetic keyboard? Language is so damn fascinating, and digitizing communication is a fascinating study.

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Not sure about downside of phonetic keyboard. Handwriting characters in general may become a lost art over time. Then again, handwriting in general is becoming more obsolete in all languages -- we all type more than we handwrite these days

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True. I wonder if eventually writing itself will take that route. It's early days still for LLMs, but they're already starting to change a lot of the online content, and the way real people write as well (ubiquitious or universal larger blocks of text).

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