China Skirts US Attempts to Restrict AI Exports

China Still Relies on US Technology, Experts tell Senate Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • December 3, 2025

Washington spent years constructing export barriers around America's most sensitive artificial intelligence technology. Four expert witnesses told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that China found ways around every one of them.

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A Tuesday panel outlined systematic leakage across hardware, software, talent and infrastructure. Where one pathway closes, Beijing opens another, and U.S. policy appears calibrated for threats that have already changed, they said.

James Mulvenon, vice president of intelligence at Pamir Consulting, told senators that claims by Western industry leaders that the People's Liberation Army doesn't need advanced U.S. AI chips are wrong. Citing what he said were "authoritative open sources," he said the Chinese military was already designing American technology into its command-and-control systems ...