China wants to put AI models on its export control list. Reuters, today: 40 technologies, 23 of them AI. Models, agents, compute clusters. Registration starts now, final rules after 15 Nov. My feed in 1 hour: "Chinese open weights are dead." Then I read the Ministry of Commerce Q&A. Already open sourced or published in papers: not covered. Open sourcing new AI tech: "automatic license". API, apps, SaaS, small on-device models: not export at all. Deploying a restricted model on servers abroad: export. So the models I run at home are fine. Today. But an automatic license is still a license. Today Beijing signs it automatically. Tomorrow it can stop signing. I see it like this. The best thing China gave the world this year was weights you can download. If the next Qwen Max or Kimi goes API only because of a list, China copies the worst thing OpenAI ever did. Comments are open until 15 Nov. I hope every Chinese lab that ships weights sends one.