There seems to be, however, an imminent shift in the struggle for global dominance at a time of accelerating ambitions for artificial intelligence. According to the McKinsey Global Institute’s Connectedness Index, which measures the size of inflows and outflows of goods, services, finance, people, and data relative to a country’s GDP, China has climbed from number twenty-five to number seven in recent years.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 332