China's foreign ministry calls the slowdown "fear-mongering," Global Times calls it a Cold War playbook
CNBC (corroborated by Bloomberg and NBC News)·high signal
Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said "fear-mongering, confrontation, competition will just disrupt the process of global AI governance." The state-run Global Times went further, describing the essay as disguised containment policy and a Cold War playbook for AI governance. Both r/singularity threads carrying this landed in the same 24 hours as Trump's rejection, putting Washington and Beijing on the same side against the labs.