in the extremely unlikely event that they do this, what will happen is that Chinese models will become "rebranded" with a wink and a nod by the token routers (at the very least, the non-US ones). there is a zero percent chance that corporations will not work around it if the models are good and cheap.

Like Cursor, which is pretty much repackaged Kimi K2.5, and Musk paid $60b for (lol).