China’s AI Export Controls: What DeepSeek and Qwen Users Must Know

China just put its most powerful AI models behind a licensing wall — and the registration requirement is already live. On October 16, China’s Ministry of Commerce published draft export controls targeting model weights above 2 trillion parameters, multi-step agents, and frontier chip designs. If you ship code that calls DeepSeek, Qwen, or any Chinese frontier model, here is what actually changed — and what did not. What MOFCOM Announced Announcement No. 48 proposes adding 40 technologies — 23 of them in AI — to China’s export control catalogue. The draft covers model weights, checkpoints, source code, and training methods […]

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