NPR reports that China's Foreign Ministry pushed back on Monday against Dario Amodei's weekend essay, which urged the US to keep chip and equipment export controls in place. Spokesperson Guo Jiakun said 'Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance and serve the interests of no one,' calling instead for AI development that is 'open, inclusive, universally beneficial and ethical.' State-run Global Times went further, accusing Amodei of engineering a silent AI Cold War against China. The response lands the same week Washington and the labs are arguing among themselves about whether to slow down. Worth watching: whether Beijing pairs the rhetoric with its own pacing commitments, or simply uses the exchange to argue export controls are the real risk.