{"id":984671,"date":"2026-01-12T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984671"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:31:03","slug":"china-moves-to-protect-ai-talent-probes-us-tech-deals-what-did-the-ministrys-memo-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/china-moves-to-protect-ai-talent-probes-us-tech-deals-what-did-the-ministrys-memo-say\/","title":{"rendered":"China moves to protect AI talent, probes US tech deals: What did the ministry\u2019s memo say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is telling US technology companies to stay away from its artificial intelligence (AI) talent and tools. Beijing is making this message clear by opening a probe into Meta\u2019s acquisition of an AI startup called Manus, analysts told Business Insider. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation was confirmed by China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce during a Thursday press conference. According to a statement translated by Google, the ministry will check whether the deal follows China\u2019s laws on export controls and regulations. In simple terms, China wants to see if important technology or knowledge is being taken out of the country unfairly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is telling US technology companies to stay away from its artificial intelligence (AI) talent and tools. Beijing is making this message clear by opening a probe into Meta\u2019s acquisition of an AI startup called Manus, analysts told Business Insider. The investigation was confirmed by China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce during a Thursday press conference. According to a statement translated by Google, the ministry will check whether the deal follows China\u2019s laws on export controls and regulations. In simple terms, China wants to see if important technology or knowledge is being taken out of the country unfairly.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984671","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=984671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}