I'm getting so interested in the meta dynamics of this. The ability of the Chinese company to just openly state "we're working on this because it's interesting" rather than the US version "We want to wrap the world in puppies and hugs and we love you all and it's just a really embarrassing mistake I ended up buying myself a Koenigsegg and fired all the scientists from my non-profit board". To apply the same scepticism to the Chinese CEO - you can't threaten the monopoly of the Communist party so you have to pretend you're less capable than you are.

I don't think there's any doubt that China can produce some level of tech innovation, I do wonder if it can be sustained and exploited since we saw the damage that went on with Alibaba. Although maybe that's looking like a more reasonable approach when you see the danger of the opposite happening in the US.