Not gonna lie, the chatbot comparison where the Chinese internet trained bot became friendly and helpful and the U.S. trained bot became a psychopath was pretty convincing.

Game theory comes into play. If we have to compete with China then we can predict both nations copy each other. State level intervention in corporations, censorship in the name of public safety, maybe even re-education camps if some of the younger congresspeople had their way. We become more like our rivals when we compete with them.