This is strange. Google, which was banned from China in 2010, opened an AI research centre in Beijing in 2018. What's up with that?

Pompeo says (without concrete evidence that i can immediately find) that research from the facility is being employed in the surveillance of Uyghurs.

There is already an extensive list of Western universities, researchers, and companies collaborating with China on AI research, now it appears Google is involved. That's a frightening combination. Between them they would have the personal info of pretty much everyone on the planet.