It's their own decisions they made long before the controls and presure. Besides being in bed with the US gov, people that run big AI shops tend to be fervently nationalistic and politically ambitious on their own. Leopold Aschenbrenner's dystopian rant [1] or Dario Amodei's [2] [3] are pretty representative.

[1] https://situational-awareness.ai/

[2] https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace

[3] https://www.darioamodei.com/post/on-deepseek-and-export-cont...