@kentwillard when you put it that way, getting this explained well is a campaign in the service of world peace! let’s get to it!

i don’t know whether South Korea and Japan would be more open. they are accustomed to industrial policy, so that part’s an easier lift. but the industrial policy battle seems close to won in the US as well. SK & Japan tend towards “national champion” style policy, though, which is much closer to US-style rentierism than China’s radically competitive industrial policy.