Rival technologies cannot be contained without locking down foreign equity and talent travel
As international technology rivalries deepen, competing states must bypass standard trade curbs to execute sovereign lockdowns over foreign investment and human mobility.
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Beijing is actively locking down the physical mobility and travel of its top AI talent to prevent strategic human capital from leaking to rivals.
Tokyo is enacting robust new investment review rules to safeguard domestically developed technologies from hostile foreign interests.
Beijing successfully blocked Meta's corporate acquisition of an AI startup, utilizing state power to prevent critical agent software equity from leaving home.