The US has spent approximately 23 times more than China on AI. Viewing AI as a competition with China is about as silly as it gets. The heavy use of AI is guaranteed to do one thing, descend into mediocrity.
AI created music is mediocre. AI created poetry is mediocre, AI created poetry is mediocre. AI created journalism is mediocre. AI created legal arguments are mediocre. AI designed products are mediocre, and on and on. Given that China's main claim to fame is creating mediocre products cheaper that are cheaper than the products that they are imitating... AI does seem like a good fit for them. Even their AI LLMs (large language models) are typically the result of stealing work from US based LLMs. From that perspective China is winning the race to mediocrity.
AI created music is mediocre.
Music was mediocre even before AI.