<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Beckmann – Geopolitics</title><description>Articles in the Geopolitics section on Beckmann.</description><link>https://beckmann.ai</link><language>en-US</language><item><title>The Vise Closes: AI Control Becomes an Arms Race</title><link>https://beckmann.ai/en/geopolitics/2026-07/china-export-control-europe-en</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://beckmann.ai/en/geopolitics/2026-07/china-export-control-europe-en</guid><description>China plans export controls for its best AI models (Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai), mirroring the U.S. Fable/Mythos blockade. The vise closes: Both powers monopolize frontier AI. Europe&apos;s InvestAI is underfunded and delayed. A new channel for knowledge drain: European experts sell their expertise directly as training data to foreign models.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:34:22 GMT</pubDate><category>Geopolitics</category><author>Brian Beckmann</author></item></channel></rss>