Yes it is theft of Chinese AI technology. Guarantee you the Americans were plotting this takeover of Manus the whole time with the Manus founders. Telling them exactly what to do by moving to Singapore and firing all its Chinese workers. The Manus founders should face prison time for engaging in industrial espionage of Chinese technology on behalf of a foreign power. The punishment China dished out to Jack Ma and Ant should happen to Manus founders to send a message to every Chinese tech company to respect Chinese national security interests first. Any company founded on Chinese soil is Chinese. Manus used Chinese local government capital, Chinese data, used all the infrastructure of China to develop and then sneakily cooperated with the enemy to undermine Chinese national interests. There should be hell to pay to deter other traitors.
The following rare earth personnel restrictions should be expanded to other critical technologies like AI, quantum, etc.
From AI:
The "Export of Expertise" Ban (October 2025)
In October 2025, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) significantly expanded its export control list. For the first time, "personnel expertise" was explicitly categorized alongside physical minerals.
• The Rule: Chinese nationals are strictly prohibited from providing technical assistance, consulting, or operational expertise to overseas rare earth mining, smelting, or magnet-manufacturing projects.
• The Travel Impact: While an expert can technically take a vacation, they cannot travel for work-related purposes to any foreign "rival" project (such as those in Australia, the US, or the EU) without a state license—which is almost never granted for "national security" reasons.
The 2024 Rare Earth Management Regulations
New regulations that took effect on October 1, 2024, established that rare earths are "state-owned assets" and that the knowledge to process them is a state secret.
• Criminalization: Under these rules, an expert who moves abroad to work for a competitor can be prosecuted for "leaking state secrets" or "damaging national interests."
• The "Golden Handcuffs": By providing massive state subsidies to keep these experts within the "Big Two" state-owned rare earth giants, China has made the personal cost of leaving—legally or physically—prohibitively high.
