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Summary

The leading firms sit in America, but a great many of their founders and executives are of Chinese descent — so the line between countries does not match the line between capability.

China’s constraint is the export ban on high-end NVIDIA chips, a physical limit that is hard to route around.

The argument is that Thailand can benefit by positioning itself as ground both sides can use.

Key points

1. 01

   People and countries are not the same unit

   Capability crosses borders, which makes reading the AI contest as two nations too coarse.

2. 02

   Chips are the real bottleneck

   Software can be copied. Compute has to physically exist.

3. 03

   Small countries gain from not being assigned a side

   When two powers exclude each other, ground that both can use appreciates on its own.

4. 04

   The opening does not reward the unprepared

   Positioning well requires the workforce and the infrastructure to be in place first.