> Only China really has the resources (multiple labs invested in the space)

That's not the point. Why is it a country thing? There are plenty of non-China startups in this space having resources at that scale. The "China" has resources is some "Western media narrative" speak. So Meta should have won a long time ago? Or xAI?

> culture (Asians are generally collectively-inclined, so sharing is in their core)

Just stereotype it? So we've gone from China -> "Asian"? Then where is your Korean or Japanese model etc? And somehow you know they're sharing.

> political bent (there will be no diplomatic repercussions) to put up a fight

More inferring from "Western media news"?

Where's the reality?

The media hyped up Gemini / Google TPU free-win last year. How did that go?