Faced with the scheduling proposals put forward by Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese diplomacy denounces a Cold War logic, while Xi Jinping proposes cooperation to the BRICS on open models.
Beijing's response to U.S. calls to curb the development of advanced models came on September 14, 2026: it is scaremongering from a Cold War textbook. Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said dramatization, confrontation and malicious competition would only disrupt the global governance of artificial intelligence. State Security Minister Chen Yixin struck a more nuanced tone, acknowledging the existence of risks while insisting on the need for international cooperation.
The day before, at the BRICS summit held in India, Xi Jinping had offered member countries support in developing their own open-weight models, outlining a governance framework for the countries of the South — a strategy that opposes the spread of openness to the Western discourse of restraint.
The exchange comes as Dario Amodei advocates deliberate slowdowns with technological restrictions targeting China, a position with which Sam Altman has partly agreed, and US agencies accuse Chinese companies of copying American models, which Beijing denies. A meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump is scheduled for 24 September in Washington.
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