The whole premise of RISC-V is that the ISA itself is a commodity and there is no value in creating yet another proprietary ISA, so it makes sense to have it fr

The whole premise of RISC-V is that the ISA itself is a commodity and there is no value in creating yet another proprietary ISA, so it makes sense to have it freely available to anyone and pool resources around the software ecosystem. So China/India/Russia/EU/whoever are in fact smart in choosing RISC-V rather than reinventing the wheel for no benefit.