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China's AI Hardware Exports Offer a Way Out of Wall Street's Circular AI Trade
US AI investment has become dangerously circular. Suppliers are financing customers who spend that capital back on the suppliers' own hardware, making it hard to separate real end-user demand from financial engineering. China's push into overseas industrial AI hardware, robotics, data-center equipment, and automated production systems has a cleaner signal, since a robot shipped abroad and installed on a factory floor can be checked against customs data and production volumes rather than internal financing loops.
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