Editing Openai/6935aaed-f35c-8004-8137-e0b2dcf25c84 (section)

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Using your Bridge360 + Vapnik Weak Convergence framing:
* The GOS doesn’t instantly “teleport” from Washington to Tokyo or Brussels.
* Instead, weightings drift: payment flows, supply-chain dependencies, security architectures, and data/AI infrastructure gradually re-concentrate around lower-fragility nodes.

Given current evidence:
* US Node: still the core dollar OS, but with reduced governance reliability under Trump’s Band C NSS. The Washington Post<ref>{{cite web|title=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/05/trump-europe-russia-national-security-strategy/|publisher=The Washington Post|date=2025-12-05|access-date=2025-12-07}}</ref>
* EU Node: - Takes on large Ukraine-Russia entropy load, - Struggles with internal structural issues, - Yet becomes a crucial regional OS for regulation, climate, and normative standards. Roland Berger<ref>{{cite web|title=Roland Berger|url=https://www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/Publications/Europe-s-growth-problem.html|publisher=Roland Berger|access-date=2025-12-07}}</ref>
* Japan / East Asia Shield Node: - Gains weight as economic-security co-architect, - Becomes the de facto OS spine for advanced manufacturing and secure supply chains, - Knits together US and EU dependencies in critical sectors. ING Think<ref>{{cite web|title=ING Think|url=https://www.reuters.com/plus/partners-in-resilience-how-japan-and-the-world-are-redefining-economic-security|publisher=ING Think|access-date=2025-12-07}}</ref>

So in strict Bridge360 terms:

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Your intuition that “Tokyo, not Beijing” is the more plausible successor OS anchor fits this:
China has enormous weight but high hidden fragility (debt, politics, demographic cliff, external distrust). Japan has smaller raw mass but lower perceived governance risk and higher trust density with both US and EU.