China

In Kyle’s wiki, China appears most concretely as a market lever in the movie business. In the essay The Hits Business, the Chinese market is the specific tool Thomas Tull used to “weaponize globalization” and scale Legendary Entertainment to blockbuster outcomes — Kyle flags it as a whole separate piece he could write, the foil to A24’s small-and-opinionated model. The logic: Tull and other big studios realized they could get “a better shot at bigger outcomes” by making “fairly generalized, un-opinionated, mass appeal movies that can succeed in every international market,” China chief among them. The Thomas Tull page records the same point, citing the Forbes “global mogul” formula and a Washington Post piece on China’s growing influence over Hollywood.

A second cluster of sources (July 2026) treats China as the leading source of open-weight AI models — Qwen, Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek — and the geopolitical strategy behind releasing them openly. America’s Open-Model Paradox argues Chinese open weights have become the default base/teacher model for Western AI builders via Distillation (AI). When China’s Open-Source AI Is a Trap covers Xi Jinping’s framing of open-source AI as a “shared asset for all humanity” ahead of the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? frames China’s strategy as “commoditize your complements,” tied explicitly to China’s lead in robotics and the physical-world application of AI.

Context: China is the world’s most populous nation (until recently) and second-largest economy. In the 2010s its booming box office made the Chinese market a decisive factor in Hollywood blockbuster economics — the period this wiki’s earlier references draw on; more recent (2026) sources track its open-weight AI model strategy.

Where this appears

• The Hits Business — the Chinese market as the lever Thomas Tull used to weaponize globalization for blockbuster scale, contrasted with A24.
• Thomas Tull — built Legendary Entertainment on a formula leaning on globalization and the Chinese market.
• America’s Open-Model Paradox — Chinese open-weight models (Qwen, Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek) as the default teacher/base model for Western AI builders.
• Another Open Source AI Debate — Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 matching closed-source frontier models on cybersecurity benchmarks.
• When China’s Open-Source AI Is a Trap — Xi Jinping’s WAIC framing of Chinese open-source AI as a global public good.
• Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? — China’s “commoditize your complements” open-weight strategy, tied to its robotics/physical-world AI lead.
• How We Can Beat China (Noahpinion) — Noah Smith argues Trump has made the Cold War 2 alliance-building strategy impossible; “beating China” should now mean helping smaller democracies resist Chinese domination while waiting for China’s internal contradictions.
• Empires of AI — China’s AI empire: cheap power, rare earths, open-weight models, state finance.