Leaderboard / China
Historical model assessment: scored 2026-04-27. The baseline lacks claim-level citations and is not presented as current policy or leader data.
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🇨🇳 China
Xi Jinping · President
Manufacturing-heavy mixed Economy · GDP $18.5T
Actually doing something about AI, which is terrifying for entirely different reasons. State-directed AI deployment with a five-year plan and zero democratic oversight.
44
PARTIAL COPE
Score Breakdown
35
Preparedness
Policy readiness for AI displacement
40
Leader Cope
Rhetoric vs reality gap
55
Exposure
Economic vulnerability to automation
☠️ 58
Screwed Score
VULNERABLE
The factory of the world is automating its own factories, but 400 million service workers have nowhere to go. The tech crackdown kneecapped the domestic AI industry right when they needed it most, and the social safety net covers about as much as a paper umbrella in a typhoon.
Key Sectors
Manufacturing
Tech
Construction
Agriculture
Services
Policy Assessment
China is arguably the least-coping major power, which should concern everyone. Massive state investment in AI, actual retraining programs (albeit authoritarian ones), and a manufacturing base that's harder to automate than services. The 'New Generation AI Development Plan' has real money behind it. The cope here isn't about denial — it's about thinking you can centrally plan the robot apocalypse.
Historical model run 2026-04-27T07:59:35.201171 · citations not retained · Countries CopeCheck