American AI firms want it both ways in limiting, profiting off China

Advertisement American AI firms want it both ways in limiting, profiting off China Anthropic and other US AI firms pushing to tighten controls on China while wooing China-adjacent markets shows they’re hedging their bets 3 -MIN READ3 -MIN Jeffrey Wu is a director at MindWorks Capital, a leading Hong Kong-headquartered venture capital firm specialising in technology investment across Greater China and Southeast Asia. Published: 4:30pm, 27 May 2026 OpenAI does not officially offer its services in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau, yet it is hiring Mandarin-speaking developer experience engineers in Singapore. On May 14, the day US President Donald…