{"id":220857,"date":"2026-05-27T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/opinion-american-ai-firms-want-it-both-ways-in-limiting-profiting-off-china\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:40:21","slug":"opinion-american-ai-firms-want-it-both-ways-in-limiting-profiting-off-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/opinion-american-ai-firms-want-it-both-ways-in-limiting-profiting-off-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | American AI firms want it both ways in limiting, profiting off China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3354759\/american-ai-firms-want-it-both-ways-limiting-profiting-china\">Opinion | American AI firms want it both ways in limiting, profiting off China<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3354759\/american-ai-firms-want-it-both-ways-limiting-profiting-china\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3354759\/american-ai-firms-want-it-both-ways-limiting-profiting-china<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 04:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Hiring in China-adjacent Markets<\/strong>: Despite not officially offering services in mainland China, Hong Kong, or Macau, companies like Anthropic are hiring Mandarin-speaking developer experience engineers in Singapore, indicating strategic positioning around China-adjacent markets.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>U.S. and Anthropic&#8217;s Rhetoric on China<\/strong>: Anthropic published a policy paper on May 14 arguing the necessity for the U.S. and its allies to secure a 12-to-24-month lead in frontier AI by 2028 to counteract &#8220;authoritarian AI leadership&#8221; in China.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Increased Lobbying for AI Regulation<\/strong>: Anthropic disclosed a 333% year-on-year increase in federal lobbying to $1.56 million, focusing on &#8220;export controls&#8221; and &#8220;AI and national security,&#8221; reflecting attempts to influence policy on AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Conflicting Posturing and Strategy<\/strong>: AI companies advocate for stricter controls on China while simultaneously hiring to build ecosystems in regions that may be affected by these controls, indicating an internal contradiction within the industry.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Strategic Contest Over AI Frontier Capability<\/strong>: Anthropic\u2019s policy paper highlights a contest for developing the most powerful AI models and controlling the necessary compute resources, reflecting a belief in technological leadership and the value of scarcity in AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>The Value Proposition of AI as a Strategic Asset<\/strong>: The industry views AI as a strategic asset whose value lies in its scarcity, emphasizing early technological dominance to secure global standards and alliances.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | American AI firms want it both ways in limiting, profiting off China https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3354759\/american-ai-firms-want-it-both-ways-limiting-profiting-china&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_opinion\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/25\/96949b7e-d2c9-45db-87e1-195e84428a31_2cd2f9b0.jpg?itok=0NtwE0r_&v=1779702434","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220859,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220857\/revisions\/220859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}