America Should Out-Open China

America should out-open China by building open-weight AI models that anyone can inspect, modify, and run without the creator's permission, rather than protecting frontier labs' metered-token margins. The argument compares this to open Internet protocols and software, which it says coexisted with profitable capitalism, and cites Hugging Face completing forensic work with GLM 5.2, a Chinese open-weight model, after commercial frontier models refused the attack data. It also holds that US export controls on Anthropic and a reported cable from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, urging diplomats to downplay AI kill switch concerns, push global companies toward open models.