“At the second, we’re artificially making a barrier between the US and mainland China, and that can stifle the improvement of technology,” Lawrence Cheung Chi-chong, HKPC’s chief know-how officer, stated in an interview on the sidelines of an AI convention organised by the council on Tuesday.
“So much of occasions for us, we don’t know whether or not we should always attain out to our Western counterparts to work with them,” Cheung instructed the South China Morning Publish. “As a result of even when they’ve curiosity to work with us … they could not have the freedom to [do so]. And that’s unhappy in a approach.”
“So from a scientist’s level of view, it has been tough over the previous few years, notably in the AI space,” he stated.
Cheung’s feedback mirror how Hong Kong, in recent times, has been caught in the crossfire of trade tensions and escalating tech rivalry between the US and China.
