Geopolitics
The AI Adoption Chasm: How the West’s Regulatory Imperialism is Ceding the Future to the Global South
The AI race reveals a fundamental divergence where Asia treats AI adoption as a state-led coordination problem to accelerate demand, while the EU treats it as a liability to be managed through compliance, resulting in a stark enterprise adoption gap of 58% in China versus 20% in the EU. This represents a catastrophic failure of European foresight, a self-inflicted wound that prioritizes bureaucratic risk-management over economic survival and condemns its small businesses to obsolescence in the digital age.
