Well actually recently Alpha Go Zero- the new version of Google's Go player- defeated the old version 100 times in a row after only three days of training. The incredible thing is that while the old version was trained with a huge database made up by moves of professional go players, this new version was initialized only with the basic rules of Go, and learned by itself how to win!! We are going super fast folks!!!

Answering your question, yes, I think China will be able to win the race