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China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
This isn't posturing. These controls target the compute and model weights moving out of China, which means Chinese builders now operate under the same export regime as Western labs. The asymmetry just inverted: Western companies can't easily access Chinese talent and capital, and Chinese companies can't easily export frontier models. For builders outside China: the global model market is fragmenting into regulatory zones. For investors: geography is now a material factor in model economics.