An op-ed published September 8, 2026 by Eurasia Review, drawing on a CNAS report titled “Superpowers and AGI” by Jacob Stokes, argues that Washington should weigh diplomatic, espionage, cyber, and kinetic options to keep China from reaching artificial general intelligence first. The piece frames current U.S. policy as containment through tighter controls on advanced chips, lithography, and semiconductor manufacturing, while characterizing China’s strategy as self-reliance via domestic chipmakers, efficient models tuned for weaker hardware, and hardened, dispersed computing infrastructure. It cites testimony estimating that the best U.S. AI chips are roughly five times more powerful than Huawei’s offerings today, a gap projected to widen to seventeen times by 2027.
