Nod. Plus, another advantage of your ‘consensus ASI’ approach—which is essentially a values handshake—over the deal types outlined by OP is that combined-US-China presents a unified front if and when third-party alien civilizations are encountered.
(A ‘unified front’ is an advantage if military power, and thus bargaining power, scales superlinearly in the deep future. Which seems >50% likely to me.)
Nod. Plus, another advantage of your ‘consensus ASI’ approach—which is essentially a values handshake—over the deal types outlined by OP is that combined-US-China presents a unified front if and when third-party alien civilizations are encountered.
(A ‘unified front’ is an advantage if military power, and thus bargaining power, scales superlinearly in the deep future. Which seems >50% likely to me.)