Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Back in 2017, China’s state council laid out the first draft of its long-term AI strategy in a sweeping policy paper. By 2030, it declared, China should have developed its “AI industry competitiveness” to a “world-leading level,” an ambitious goal for a country whose future economic prosperity was not a given. Today, China’s patient cultivation of world-leading AI is bearing lush fruit, w