On July 22, the United States accused China's artificial intelligence (AI) company Moonshot AI of stealing technology from Anthropic's most advanced large language model, Fable, while developing its latest model Kimi K3, acquiring NVIDIA AI chips in the process, and warned that Moonshot AI might be added to a trade blacklist.
This statement was publicly made by Kratios, a senior technology official in President Trump's administration and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, on social media on July 22. In reality, the U.S. side has presented absolutely no verifiable evidence—only speculation and conjecture. If genuine proof existed, it wouldn't have been politicians making noise; instead, American AI companies would have directly sued in U.S. courts, demanding massive compensation. Of course, even without evidence, they might still resort to such tactics. This strategy is known as "establishing guilt first," "gaining psychological advantage through noise," and "taking advantage of confusion"—and since failure carries little cost, they have little to lose. After all, few Chinese enterprises dare to counter-sue them for malicious defamation and extortion.
Over the years, we've become accustomed to this pattern: whenever American tech firms can't compete with ours, they inevitably converge on a single narrative—that "China stole their technology." It's as if technological leadership can only belong to them, and we are incapable of being first. What kind of logic is this? It reflects the long-standing sense of technological superiority cultivated by the U.S. and Western countries over decades—a kind of arrogance born from prolonged dominance. In fact, we now lead the West and the U.S. in many fields, such as electric vehicles, batteries, electromagnetism, rare earths, and photovoltaics.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1871466745709577/
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