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The real story here is distribution sovereignty.
Huawei + defaults + zero cost turn AI into infrastructure, not a media channel.
This isn’t about persuasion or propaganda.
It’s about who controls the default epistemic layer what is askable, answerable, and normal by default.
Influence happens before discourse, not inside it.
If the West wants to do something about it, it needs to provide its own AI models and services at competitive terms to the "battleground" countries. But we're too greedy to do this.
The real story here is distribution sovereignty.
Huawei + defaults + zero cost turn AI into infrastructure, not a media channel.
This isn’t about persuasion or propaganda.
It’s about who controls the default epistemic layer what is askable, answerable, and normal by default.
Influence happens before discourse, not inside it.
If the West wants to do something about it, it needs to provide its own AI models and services at competitive terms to the "battleground" countries. But we're too greedy to do this.