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China wants to lock the recipe, not just sell the product
Beijing's draft Announcement No. 48 would control 40 technologies, from AI models to solar cells, and it treats the know-how itself as a state asset. Selling the product stays easy. Exporting the recipe is what gets harder.
Beijing, China · October 18, 2026
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