Well, as much as China prefers to not seek conflict against people who hasn't wronged China, one does not call one-self "Middle Kingdom" for 3,000 years by being pacifist when it comes to people who has wronged China, revenge is a virtue in Chinese culture and that's a detail most people in the world doesn't realize.
This is what I hate about how Chinese think. They want to play kumbaya but they setup conflict by saying nothing, doing nothing. Here for instance the Western narrative is there’s a huge battle ahead over AI between the West and China. No there isn’t. The West will have theirs and China will have their own. What’s wrong with that? Because no one challenges the Western narrative, there’s going to be conflict because people are going to believe one has win over the other. No, it’s the West that has win and be in control over everyone else. That’s what they want. Do you see China demanding everyone has to use their AI? No, the West is saying that for theirs because they want the world to worship their AI God so everything slants pro-West. Because no one Chinese says nothing doing nothing, their narrative is what everyone hears and believes. The Chinese claim they don’t like conflict but it’s going to happen because the US and the West frame it that way if the Chinese don’t embrace their AI. And why the Chinese don’t is because they’ll say it’s China that wants to take to over everyone else with their AI because why would they make an alternative? They want everyone to think their AI can’t do wrong because it’s a machine that can’t be biased. But they don’t want China to have it because it’ll be bias…? Again crimes are determined not by the act one commits. It’s determined by who commits that act and who’s the victim of that act. And that comes out of racism. And no one sees it because you say nothing, do nothing.
In this case China very much is fighting a tech war with intent to destroy the United States in all domains, including AI, so American fears are justified, regardless how little China talks about it or how much Americans actually understand it.