Anthropic says Alibaba stole from its models. Alibaba just banned Anthropic’s tools internally. The distillation debate now has two names — and the global AI ecosystem is splitting into two hostile spheres.
China’s robot advantage isn’t cheaper hardware — it’s an army of ordinary citizens, cameras strapped on, teaching machines how to be human. Inside the data strategy that could decide the robot race.
Three binding AI laws. One country. Effective this month. China just enacted the world’s first rules for AI companions and autonomous agents — while the West is still writing white papers.
Anthropic is partially back after its shutdown. But the developers who left for DeepSeek aren’t returning — and Trump’s own former AI czar is warning that the crackdown handed China its opening. Two weeks was all it took.
Is China’s AI miracle built on stealing America’s homework? The distillation evidence is real — and so is the convenient politics behind it. watchchina.ai examines both sides without flinching.