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‘Be your own hero’: why video games are a battleground in the US–China tech war

  • Written by The Conversation

Blockbuster Chinese video game Black Myth: Wukong sold more than 10 million copies within days of its release last month, and its success has been hailed as a soft-power win for the Asian superpower.

However, as a Chinese idiom states, “the intention of the drunkard lies not on the wine, but on other purposes”.

China’s push into...

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