“Agents are controlled independently of the model.”
Beijing just copied Washington’s homework. Any model over 10^26 FLOPs, two trillion parameters, or a global top-10 ranking needs an export license. Agents get controlled separately from the weights, and anything built for defense or critical infrastructure is banned outright. The buried detail is that no released Chinese model clears the compute bar yet. This is a fence around a field they have not planted. The pre-export registration requirement already applies, though, so every Chinese lab shipping open weights now has a paperwork problem.