--- title: All Chinese Models Will Be Illegal in 3... 2... 1... description: A provocative opinion piece arguing that US government regulation of state-of-the-art LLMs is a thinly veiled attempt by American AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic)... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/all-chinese-models-will-be-illegal-in-3-2-1--dx7untbei twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: All Chinese Models Will Be Illegal in 3... 2... 1... | daily.dev og:description: A provocative opinion piece arguing that US government regulation of state-of-the-art LLMs is a thinly veiled attempt by American AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic)... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/all-chinese-models-will-be-illegal-in-3-2-1--dx7untbei og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DX7UnTbEI.png og:image:alt: All Chinese Models Will Be Illegal in 3... 2... 1... og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # All Chinese Models Will Be Illegal in 3... 2... 1... **[Ibrahim Diallo](https://daily.dev/sources/idiallo)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A provocative opinion piece arguing that US government regulation of state-of-the-art LLMs is a thinly veiled attempt by American AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) to use Washington policy to ban competitive Chinese models like DeepSeek. The author draws a parallel to BYD electric cars being effectively banned in the US despite being high-quality and affordable, predicting Chinese AI models will face similar treatment under the guise of 'safety policy.' ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@akashskypatel** · 0 upvotes > All this will do is keep the US in the dark ages. Lot of good banning Chinese electric cars has done for the regular Joe. All this will help is the techno-fascists ruling class billionaires. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [China weighs curbing overseas access to its top AI models](https://daily.dev/posts/china-weighs-curbing-overseas-access-to-its-top-ai-models-etlwiplpp) · The Next Web · 3 upvotes · 1 comments - [Top 5 Chinese LLMs: The Models Powering China’s AI Surge in 2024–25](https://daily.dev/posts/top-5-chinese-llms-the-models-powering-china-s-ai-surge-in-2024-25-333vub8d0) · PromptLayer Blog · 1 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#deepseek](https://daily.dev/tags/deepseek), [#ai-regulation](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-regulation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/all-chinese-models-will-be-illegal-in-3-2-1--dx7untbei) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"All Chinese Models Will Be Illegal in 3... 2... 1...","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/all-chinese-models-will-be-illegal-in-3-2-1--dx7untbei","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/all-chinese-models-will-be-illegal-in-3-2-1--dx7untbei"},"datePublished":"2026-06-27T03:35:06.878Z","dateModified":"2026-06-27T03:35:24.798Z","description":"A provocative opinion piece arguing that US government regulation of state-of-the-art LLMs is a thinly veiled attempt by American AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic)...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1KxV4ohY--/f_auto/v1722860400/public/Placeholder%2007","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1KxV4ohY--/f_auto/v1722860400/public/Placeholder%2007","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Ibrahim Diallo","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Ibrahim Diallo","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--UBuPzW64--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774960037/logos/idiallo?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/idiallo"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/all-chinese-models-will-be-illegal-in-3-2-1--dx7untbei","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"llm,openai,anthropic,deepseek,ai-regulation","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ibrahim Diallo","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/idiallo"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"All Chinese Models Will Be Illegal in 3... 2... 1..."}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/all-chinese-models-will-be-illegal-in-3-2-1--dx7untbei","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"All this will do is keep the US in the dark ages. 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