Yeah, but that is a continuum and not binary. Xi isnt personally in a room pulling levers that control everything. There are thousands of bureaucratic orgs an

Yeah, but that is a continuum and not binary. Xi isnt personally in a room pulling levers that control everything. There are thousands of bureaucratic orgs and corporations making their own calls, deepseek and qwen were both trained on nvidia hardware, while several chip startups and SMIC ramp up. The nature of those calls is influenced by culture. If you have a culture of MBAs, you get Intel's actions over the last 15 years.