CHINA’S AI THREAT TO THE USA
Global Affairs Session 70 30 July 2026 CHINA’S AI THREAT TO THE USA How open-weight models, low prices and industrial scale challenge American AI power China’s artificial-intelligence challenge to the United States is no longer based mainly on copying American breakthroughs. It increasingly combines near-frontier models, open weights, low prices, engineering efficiency and rapid industrial deployment. America still leads across the complete AI stack, but China has found ways to compete around some of its most expensive technological advantages.