China's draft AI export controls: what the proposed MOFCOM rules restrict
AIChina's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology have proposed adding AI technologies to the export-controlled catalogue in Announcement 48 of 2026. The draft covers frontier models above 10^26 FLOPs, 2 trillion parameters, or global top-10 capability, along with chip design, memory, clusters, agents, detectors, and cyber tools.
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The piece walks through each proposed control and its thresholds, showing how the draft could shape open-weight releases, chip IP, and overseas data centers.
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ChinaTalk · Quinn Ennis · chinatalk.mediaPublished · added here
Original title: MOFCOM's New Rules and the Future of Chinese AI