US-China AI Risk Collaboration Masks Systemic Power Struggles
Original framing: “US and China can again find common ground – in AI’s risks” — South China Morning Post
The headline’s promise of "common ground" operates as a trickster device, inverting the expectation of cooperation to reveal a concealed contest for supremacy; the irony lies in the very language that pretends unity while masking power politics. This paradoxical reading destabilizes the solemn diplomatic veneer.
The US-China AI dynamic replicates historical patterns of technological colonialism, where innovation is weaponized for geopolitical dominance.
This systemic analysis reveals how corporate and state interests co-opt AI governance to maintain power hierarchies, while alternative models rooted in ecological and social justice remain marginalized.