ASEAN can still hedge between America and China on AI. It needs to get its act together first
Fortune Nikola Ilovski
The article says Washington and Beijing are advancing competing frameworks to control AI-related infrastructure and access, which pressures ASEAN to decide whether to align with one side. It cites a U.S. emergency export control order in June requiring Anthropic to restrict access to its frontier models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, to U.S. nationals only. It concludes that ASEAN can still hedge, but only if members build domestic AI and energy capacity rather than relying on loopholes or opportunistic deals.
Why it matters
Can ASEAN members draw from both the Chinese and Western ecosystems in pursuit of their own interests?
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