‘Leadership is about controlling the platform on which others build, not hoarding end products,’ writes Aaron Ginn.
Your editorial “Trump Says Chips Ahoy to Xi Jinping” (Dec. 11) asks why the president would allow Nvidia to sell advanced chips to China, as if the choice were between guarding a fortress and handing over the keys. The question instead is whether we benefit from forcing Beijing to develop an independent AI ecosystem or by keeping the global one anchored to American platforms.
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