The Chinese government must be slathering at the mouth about this. Assuming there are some inherent advantages to large tech companies (a collection of smaller companies can't achieve the same economy of scale as one big one), then if America breaks up its large tech companies it will be the perfect opportunity for Chinese ones to fill their place. This would not only expand China's soft power but also their ability to monitor global information flows. Given that much recent development in deep learning is also funded by the deep pockets of monopolistic tech companies, breaking them up (and removing this surplus profit) would slow down US AI development relative to China.
To the downvoters, I'm curious why you think America weakening its largest tech companies wouldn't help China? The fact that people are calling for breaking up large tech companies suggests they have an unfair advantage over small companies (otherwise they wouldn't need to be broken up), so why wouldn't large Chinese tech companies have an advantage over small, broken up American companies?
