| In the expansive grasslands of Inner Mongolia, farmers are picking plump potatoes alongside new neighbours: huge, rectangular blocks that will fuel China's AI platforms. Hundreds of workers in yellow helmets carry heavy equipment into the building site. "This is China speed," jokes one worker. "An infrastructure maniac," is how he describes his country, laughing as he walks away. China's not just building the infrastructure. It's also creating a pool of talent: young engineers and researchers who now see their country as a place of opportunity, partly because tensions with the US and Trump's restrictions on immigration have soured the American dream. |
