{"id":1005664,"date":"2026-04-29T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005664"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:24:22","slug":"how-china-block-of-ai-deal-could-stop-singapore-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/how-china-block-of-ai-deal-could-stop-singapore-washing\/","title":{"rendered":"How China block of AI deal could stop &#8216;Singapore-washing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo: When is a Chinese AI startup not a Chinese AI startup? When it&#8217;s based in Singapore, or elsewhere, to distance itself legally and politically from Beijing. <\/p>\n<p>The practice known as &#8220;Singapore-washing&#8221; is under scrutiny after China blocked a major US acquisition on national security grounds. <\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s top economic planning body said Monday it prohibited the deal between Facebook owner Meta and the Chinese-developed, Singapore-based artificial intelligence agent tool Manus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo: When is a Chinese AI startup not a Chinese AI startup? When it&#8217;s based in Singapore, or elsewhere, to distance itself legally and politically from Beijing. The practice known as &#8220;Singapore-washing&#8221; is under scrutiny after China blocked a major US acquisition on national security grounds. China&#8217;s top economic planning body said Monday it prohibited the deal between Facebook owner Meta and the Chinese-developed, Singapore-based artificial intelligence agent tool Manus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}