Blueprint diptych — THE GIGAWATT GAP: AMERICA BUILDS COMPUTE, CHINA BUILDS POWER. Two engineered systems given equal dignity, even-handed, no side drawn as threat. Exact figures: China ~1.8 TW renewables; 45 UHV lines / 40,000+ km; ~60 GW datacenters by 2030; US ~3/4 of world datacenter construction. Real generated image, drafting-room warmth; vector fails; copy in-image, figures verified. Native + 16:9 + 4:5, individual files + sources.md. Not: flags vs flags; red-scare coding.