Published on June 1, 2026 1:11 PM GMT This post is part of a comparative project on East Asia compute governance, initiated as part of the inaugural round of AI Gov Sprints . Many thanks to David Sanchez Garcia , who led this project and whose feedback greatly benefited this piece, and to all who gave feedback on earlier drafts. This post was lightly edited for flow using Claude; all ideas and arguments are my own. All mistakes, too, are my own. A lot of compute governance discourse focuses on t