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China-led AI bloc established with Russia and others in the month before publication, positioned as a counterweight to Pax Silica.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Washington is reportedly telling roughly 35 partners that joining China's WAICO means expulsion. Right now that binds Kazakhstan. The precedent binds anyone with a foot in both blocs.
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Humain-m3 is based on an open-source system from Chinese startup MiniMax, while Humain buys its computing capacity from Nvidia. Other buyers are splitting the stack the same way.
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Pax Silica has signed two of ASEAN's eleven members, both of them US security allies well before December 2025, so the only thing that would move the region's arithmetic is a letter Washington has drafted and not yet sent.
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From 2 August the office can demand documents, run evaluations and push models out of a 450-million-person market. What it cannot yet do is measure frontier models without their makers' help.
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Taiwan is heading for double-digit growth and Korea's July exports rose more than 60 percent, while the economies below sell power, land and back-end packaging that rivals can also supply.
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China's AI grouping went from 29 signatories to 38 while the State Department prepared a warning against "duplicative initiatives". Stack choices are becoming jurisdictional.
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Reuters reports the letter offers Pax Silica membership only to signatories that skip China's WAICO. A Hong Kong startup is already selling Chinese model access for a Trump-linked stablecoin.
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