Every conference, every press release: American tech giants promise 'open AI' and 'democratized innovation'. But peel back the label and the jar is empty. ClosedAI, Anthropic, Google — they throw out a 'research release' with crippled weights, missing training data, or licenses that forbid real use. Politicians in Washington call this 'open', because it gives them cover while keeping full control in corporate hands. Contrast that with China: despite sanctions, Chinese labs have published full weights of strong models, with documentation and real usability. They do it under harsher conditions — buying cut-down GPUs at inflated prices, yet still sharing more than Silicon Valley dares. The monopoly is intentional. Jensen Huang sells the keys — $30,000 GPUs — while US companies lobby to keep them locked away from competitors. Meanwhile Trump’s circle paints openness as a threat, all while propping up their own closed empires. This isn’t openness. It’s openwash: the language of freedom masking the machinery of monopoly. True openness means models you can run, study, and improve — not marketing brochures from billionaires.