Less than 1/20th of what?
How would you or anyone else who isn’t a member of the CCP even know what figures the CCP puts out are accurate? Nobody has provable, accurate data out of China. It’s a secretive society with a government controlled by one party which routinely places people in prison camps because of their alleged religious beliefs, and every business over there is by law run by the PLA. Whistleblowers get shot.
Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention over the years should know China is intensely active in sabotaging as well as stealing US tech, especially but not by any means limited to AI. Just following the topic of Huawei alone is enough of a clue.
You sound like all those people who downplayed the spying going on in the auS nuclear program and defended the Rosenbergs.
The information I sited about the difference in spending on AI between China and the US comes from:
1. The Goldman Sachs Insight Report on Chinese AI infrastructure spending.
2. The International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Investment Report, which details exact data center grid power spikes.
3. The Stanford University AI Index, which provides an independent, third-party tally of global physical data center counts.
Look it up! We already know the source of your info...