China's Steel Playbook for AI Threatens US Tech Fortunes
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The parallel between AI and steel is both historically resonant and strategically significant. China's industrial playbook—scale, subsidies, price pressure—has already proven effective in transforming global markets.
The key insight is that concentrated control over infrastructure, whether steel or AI, creates immense wealth but also a single point of failure. As China replicates its steel strategy in AI, U.
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The parallel between AI and steel is both historically resonant and strategically significant. China's industrial playbook—scale, subsidies, price pressure—has already proven effective in transforming global markets. The key insight is that concentrated control over infrastructure, whether steel or AI, creates immense wealth but also a single point of failure. As China replicates its steel strategy in AI, U.S. tech billionaires face a familiar threat: the same forces that made them dominant could also make them vulnerable. The outcome may reshape not just corporate fortunes but the geopolitical balance of technology.