Foreign Affairs has published an essay arguing that AI is "an inherently imperial technology" and that the United States and China are building rival "AI empires" with different approaches to extending their power. The piece is framed as part of "The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order," and its excerpt opens by noting that in the span of a few years China and the United States have each assembled something, though the supplied text cuts off before saying what. No data, benchmarks or policy specifics from the essay were included in the available excerpt.