Geopolitics
Code, Sovereignty, and the New Cold War: The Manus Case and the Global South's Precarious Future
China's unprecedented reversal of Meta's acquisition of the AI startup Manus signals a new phase in the US-China digital cold war, moving the battle from chips and minerals to the ownership of intelligence itself. This brazen assertion of sovereignty over 'code with a passport' is a necessary corrective to Western hypocrisy, but it also dangerously traps the Global South between competing imperialist tech ecosystems, threatening a new form of digital colonization.
