Thanks Wangari for sharing this. But there is something else to note in this. The Geopolitical angle. The US allies numbers is not captured in this article & the internet architecture. And China’s interests is more on access of data for its internal & external politics plus Intellectual theft( diplomatically called Industrial espionage). I see this in heavily encrypted applications already hence the Chinese desire for the world to use WeChat which it has control of vs WhatsApp,Telegram & Signal which is a headache for them. Geopolitical issues & Industrialization is the key driver for Chinese desire to control the Internet. Will America and its Western allies including Japan, South Korea & Australia allow this? Time will tell. Ken Ogera On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 21:48, WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

https://www.axios.com/chinas-butting-heads-with-us-digital-diplomacy-1534447...

"What to watch:

- China is graduating more science and engineering students than any other country and contributing 20% of the global investment in research and development. Experts say China could well become the dominant force in artificial intelligence within a decade. - China's efforts at information control are shaping the way even massive U.S. companies conduct business. Just today <https://www.axios.com/google-employees-censored-search-engine-china-dragonfly-712aa1ca-524f-42eb-bb38-f98590933f6d.html>, about 1,000 Google employees signed a letter asking for more transplant about the project to bring a censored version of Google to China. - China is exporting data analysis, cloud storage, and surveillance to countries in Africa and the Middle East that are likely to support Beijing's vision of the internet's future...."

Said it before, Chinese kids, well prepared are on the way...Not just about the now but futuristic trail. Dominant force simply means the rest of the world is at your beck and call. How is that so? Since it is very clear to the Nation that Human Capital R&D = $$€€$ na pia jengea UChina jenga nchi roho safi. We probably heard such years ago in Kenya's local manufacturing - buy Kenya, build Kenya.

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