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## Segment 2 — futures

## Article 75 — a075

# Xue Niu

**Xue Niu** is a co-author of the source, a researcher affiliated with [[entity-digital-planet]] at Tufts University's Fletcher School.

**Role in the source:** co-author / contributing researcher on the 2026 Digital Evolution analysis, including the data behind [[concept-digital-momentum]].

**Attributed contributions to this vault** (jointly authored): the quantitative backbone of the [[concept-digital-evolution-index]], the compute-and-AI claims ([[claim-us-compute-dominance]], [[claim-us-china-ai-gap-closed]]), and the four-cluster mapping. Individual claims/quotes in this source are attributed collectively to "the Authors."