US-China Tech Rivalry Escalation: Export Controls, Research Bans, and AI Talks at Risk

Pentagon blacklists Fudan, Moscow State among 130 schools banned from US research under Section 1286, marking major expansion beyond military-linked institutions. U.S. sanctions threat against Moonshot AI (distillation accusation) clouds planned September US-China AI talks; internal disagreement (Sacks vs OpenAI) noted. BIS addition of 52 Chinese entities and CNC machine tool controls. Section 1286 list expansion signals structural shift in research security policy.