{"id":692192,"date":"2026-01-13T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692192\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:08:14","slug":"china-prioritises-export-controls-supply-chain-security-to-shield-economy-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692192\/","title":{"rendered":"China prioritises export controls, supply-chain security to shield economy in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has made strengthening export control rules<\/a> and safeguarding supply-chain resilience top priorities this year, as officials move to secure the nation\u2019s economic interests amid rising geopolitical friction.The Ministry of Commerce<\/a> said it would enhance legal frameworks and risk prevention and tighten the \u201csafety net for opening up\u201d as one of eight core work areas, according to a statement released on Sunday after its annual work conference in Beijing.<\/p>\n

China has increasingly used export controls to protect national security and critical technologies amid trade, supply-chain and diplomatic disputes.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the ministry announced a review of Meta Platforms\u2019 US$2.5 billion acquisition of Manus, which developed its products in China, to determine whether the deal complies with export control and technology transfer rules.<\/p>\n

The Chinese-founded artificial intelligence (AI) agent start-up relocated to Singapore \u2013 and reportedly laid off most of its Beijing staff \u2013 last year, in a move widely seen as a bid to access more overseas funding and clients.<\/p>\n

As China\u2019s race with the US for AI supremacy accelerates, analysts have said<\/a> the review signalled a tightening of oversight on foreign stakes in sensitive technologies, even as founders move operations abroad to sidestep geopolitical scrutiny.Beijing also recently announced a ban on dual-use exports \u2013 goods with both commercial and military applications, such as drones and rare earth elements \u2013 to military end users in Japan amid a protracted diplomatic row with Tokyo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has made strengthening export control rules and safeguarding supply-chain resilience top priorities this year, as officials move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[3801,71499,51,1395,209034,1700,27422,209033,68437,18431,194083,2122,92855,18298,93585,7808,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-692192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-belt-and-road-initiative","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-dual-use-exports","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-emerging-markets","15":"tag-export-control-rules","16":"tag-ey","17":"tag-g7","18":"tag-hainan-free-trade-port","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-ministry-of-commerce","21":"tag-national-security","22":"tag-supply-chain-resilience","23":"tag-tokyo","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115885120086771896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}