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Thought exercise: USA and China both win the AI race. Our AIs are roughly equally capable: what we can build, they can also build. Whatever next gen weapons we design, they can also design. This creates a detente where we each stick to our own hemispheres and leave each other alone. Each of us rely on a few countries for resources, know how and capital. Those chosen countries exclusively work with US or China but not both. Every other country in the world then becomes a vassal state of either the US or China. With no native AI or critical resources, they lobby to become a protectorate of one or the other. Huge shift in the global order if this happens.