DeepSeek is a wake-up call to the US, as China is building up its universities, while the US is in retreat. A wide consensus in Washington has noted that the competition with China is the key geopolitical strategic challenge for the US. On the technology front, the Trump Administration is working to ensure that the US maintains its lead in AI. Vice President Vance reiterated this approach in his address at a recent Paris summit, saying “The Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful A.I. systems are built in the U.S. with American design and manufactured chips.”  However the race for the most power of A.I. systems may rely more on how well we can train scientists and engineers in our universities than the hardware that is used within the computers driving AI systems. In this area, while China is moving full speed ahead to build new universities and expand its innovation ecosystem, the US is in retreat, with funding for scientific research from NSF in paralysis, and universities are being attacked from all sides.  This situation does not bode well for the future if the US wants to maintain is dominance in science and technology. My new article in Forbes.com entitled “DeepSeek – A Wake-Up Call For US Higher Education” explores these issues in detail and documents how China has built up new universities and an innovation ecosystem that will create multiple Silicon Valleys within the country. One of the main centers is in Shenzhen, where the InnoX Academy trains the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs as part of the larger Greater Bay Area expansion. This is explored in another article I have written for Forbes.com entitled A New School for Chinese Innovators – InnoX and XBot Park.