Washington’s anti-China tech strategy is built on a dangerous illusion
The front line has shifted from physical manufacturing to intangible software. The global debut of Chinese open-weight (publicly available) models, most notably Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, sent shockwaves through Wall Street. But what looks like a commercial bargain on a corporate balance sheet, in reality, is economic warfare.AdvertisementWe do not need to speculate on how this playbook unfolds — we have already lived through it.
- ▪The front line has shifted from physical manufacturing to intangible software.
- ▪The global debut of Chinese open-weight (publicly available) models, most notably Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, sent shockwaves through Wall Street.
- ▪But what looks like a commercial bargain on a corporate balance sheet, in reality, is economic warfare.AdvertisementWe do not need to speculate on how this playbook unfolds — we have already lived through it.
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When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week that the United States was finding American “watermarks” embedded deep inside Chinese artificial intelligence models, he signaled a potential shift in geopolitical statecraft.For four years, Washington treated the technology competition with Beijing as a hardware fight — a battle over physical silicon, lithography equipment, and advanced semiconductors. That era is over. The front line has shifted from physical manufacturing to intangible software.
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