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Who is Who in China's AI Race and Which US-Listed Stocks Are Worth Buying

China's AI ecosystem is not a monolith. It is a stratified battlefield of state-backed hardware champions, cloud monopolies and fast-moving model labs. Shayne Heffernan maps who is who, from Baidu and Alibaba to DeepSeek, Zhipu, Moonshot and Huawei's Ascend line, then works out which US-listed stocks give investors real exposure: $BIDU, $BABA, $NVDA and $PDD. Includes the risks, from the semiconductor chokehold to Taiwan.