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As Hill described it last month, they weren’t so much “solving this master plan” with Sasaki as they were “helping him actualize the things” he was trying to do in his delivery.

Cecile, a 25-year-old studying for a masters degree in law, said she wanted to leave Cameroon because procedures for becoming a barrister were "very long -- and you have to have connections".

The U.S. also has leverage over China because it produces chips needed for artificial-intelligence processing and industrial products like jet engines—things Beijing has yet to master.

"As soon as children master language, they start lying," adds Prof Wiseman.

She later obtained bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she grew interested in computer chips while working in a semiconductor lab as an undergraduate.