# China Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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## Timeline

- **2026-09-09**: China's Commerce Ministry rejects US claims — Beijing dismissed the advisory as groundless, accused Washington of pursuing a monopoly of the AI industry and threatened resolute countermeasures if US suppresses Chinese AI companies.
- **2026-09-09**: Mao Ning urges US to drop accusations — At a regular news conference, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson urged the US to refrain from unfounded accusations and said US-China AI cooperation should be strengthened.
- **2026-09-08**: US agencies issue joint AI distillation advisory — FBI, NSA and CISA released a joint cybersecurity advisory alleging Chinese AI developers have distilled capabilities from frontier US models, including Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok, since at least late 2024.
- **2026-09**: Planned Trump-Xi AI governance talks — AI governance is expected to be on the agenda during planned talks later in September between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### FBI-NSA-CISA: China distilled 4 frontier AI models since late 2024
2026-09-09 18:26:47 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

The FBI, NSA and CISA jointly allege Chinese AI developers used multiple request pathways to distill four frontier U.S. models since at least late 2024. Beijing denies the claims as groundless and warns of resolute countermeasures, raising the stakes for API security and AI governance.
Full story: https://getcyberbrief.com/story/china-ai-distillation-us-cyber-advisory-2026

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