I want to ask you about the landscape there around
regulation because we did see Sachin and Nadella very quick
to congratulate Trump and talk about innovation in future.
Do you think that innovation in the US has been
Hanford under a very strong FTC in the last number
of years under Biden?
Certainly the merger and acquisition climate has been impacted in
some other areas.
From our vantage point in terms of exporting AI to
to parts of the world, even outside of China, the
process has been slower than what we would have liked.
You know, if there is an opportunity to increase the
speed of exporting so we can bring our technology to
the world faster, leave aside China, just let us bring
it to the Middle East, let us bring it to
Africa, let us bring it to the rest of Asia.
We should get moving faster.
That will be good for the United States.
It will be good for the rest of the world.
I do think that's something that we'd like to see.
What's your view on the obstacles still in terms of
doing trade with China in terms of technology?
Because the CHIPS Act has made that difficult on the
Biden administration.
A lot of it started with Trump.
Do you think it's going to get even more challenging
from here in terms of tech transfers?
I think it's too early to know.
The truth is, as an American technology company, we can
do business in China only when we are offering a
service that the Chinese government wants to have there and
the US government wants us to bring there.
And in some cases they look at, say, a data
center to support a Mercedes or a Siemens or a
Starbucks or a General Motors.
There seems to be a level of comfort in consumer
services.
Not really.
So I suspect we're going to continue to live in
a world where some technology will move to China, others
will not end.
We're not going to be the ones who decide we
have to navigate this world.
It's the two governments that will decide what happens when
China catches up.
Well, I think in many ways, China is close to
or is even catching up.
And I think one of the dangers, frankly, is that
people who don't go to China too often assume that
they're behind.
But when you go there, you're impressed by how much
they're doing.
The reality is Chinese companies, American companies, China, the United
States, we're going to be competing for now and into
the distant future in technology in AII think it's one
of the reasons it's important for us as the United
States, as Europe, as American and European companies to make
sure we're collaborating.
We're growing our economies with AI, and we're bringing AI
to the rest of the world.