Dean Ball — who just joined OpenAI as head of Strategic Futures after advising on AI policy in the Trump White House — makes a pointed argument about China's chip narrative: The public posture is "we don't need American chips." The private reality, he argues, is that DeepSeek, Alibaba, and China's other leading AI labs are lobbying Beijing hard for access to exactly those chips. His take: China banning its own AI companies from using American chips isn't strength — it's national pr...