A July 25, 2026 article by Zeeshan Ahmad draws parallels between the "Atoms for Peace" program announced by Dwight Eisenhower in April 1953 and the current global contest over artificial intelligence. It argues that the United States' historical offer to share nuclear technology came with American oversight, effectively leasing knowledge rather than sharing it, a lesson Pakistan learned through the Pressler and Symington Amendments and decades of sanctions. The article states that artificial intelligence has become the twenty-first century's strategic technology, and the Global South is again being asked on whose terms it may participate. This July, President Xi Jinping took the stage at the World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai, announcing the creation of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation, which twenty-nine countries have signed onto as founding members. Xi pledged 5,000 training and seminar opportunities for developing nations over the next five years and called for "a just and equitable system for global AI governance." In contrast, the article notes that America's AI Action Plan, released last summer, states the United States must "achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance" and offers membership in a "gated alliance."