This feels like a cope desu. People have become very cynical about any change in general, its fully believable to me that there is homegrown anti-ai sentiments. Also stuff like the king, the pope, and obama all coming out shortly after each other to talk about how its too dangerous and NYT interviewing the guy who quit Anthropic is not china's doing, that is pure western politicking and EA cult movements I think. Not to say foreign actors aren't happy to pour extra fuel on the fire.