I don't really see how open weights models further what you're talking about.

It's trivial for me to download one of their models and run it on my Spark, and there's all sorts of ways to strip out their Tiananmen-denialism or whatever.

If/when the memory price crunch dissipates, even more so. And so far it's only China I see as making moves to increase production capacity on memory, too.

If anything the centralization of capital into US-based Anthropic and OpenAI is far more terrifying from the perspective you're outlining.