(Sanctions deny the hardware for the looted designs. That may also be the gate at a later stage of investigation after the flow of proprietary information is traced. The current issue is whether generative AI is the low-cost producer.) "But the real issue is how do Chinese firms acquire the explicit knowledge, as well as the all-important tacit knowledge to become world-class competition for American firms and firms from other advanced economies" "If we work together with key industrial countries specifically Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and South Korea on standards of acceptable behavior, China will have no choice but to follow. If we try to do by it ourselves, we will be played against the others, or worse, a coalition of the others. "