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One is the technical way, where you design the new chips and the new data centres in such a way that they effectively have kill switches controlled by the rival country. You can imagine that the chips are designed so that they have to receive a certain code from China, but if China stops sending the code then the chip just stops working. Similarly, the Chinese chips have to receive a code from the US to continue working.AI Verified (Aug 27, 2026)
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