Chinese AI firms shunned US delegation over sanctions fears, commission says - South China Morning Post
Nayan Sethin WashingtonPublished: 6:36am, 12 Sep 2026Updated: 7:16am, 12 Sep 2026A US congressional advisory body on China said on Friday that leading Chinese artificial intelligence firms declined to meet its members during a recent Beijing visit over concerns that doing so could expose the firms to US sanctions.
But members also underscored the importance of the coming AI dialogue between Washington and Beijing.
βWe were told, βYou guys are a really scary commission, and you do hawkish anti-China things, and theyβre afraid if they meet with you, they might be put on the entities list,ββ said Randy Schriver, the chairman of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) during a panel discussion at Johns Hopkins University.
βAnd we said, βAha, actually meeting with us, we can help you get off the entities list.β But [they] didnβt seem to buy it.β
The commission called the trip a fact-finding mission and said what it learned would inform its ongoing work, including its annual report to Congress on Chinaβs military, economic and technological developments.
