He's checking you precisely because you have heat, scale, and high visibility. You took American money last time, and America checked you too—now China is checking you, which is also lawful enforcement.
This time you're selling 2 billion, and you've announced a complete severance from China—so who else would they check?
Early this year Manus was being promoted as DeepSeek's number two, hyped up high. This meant to get benchmark money, the U.S. Treasury Department also had to review this financing.
Manus has this level of visibility—regulators in any country globally must scrutinize it, otherwise it's serious dereliction of duty. Plus Manus has always had an attitude of wanting it all, having it all, and wanting more.
Stirring things up domestically, collaborating with Alibaba's Qwen, showing off in state media.
Then the U.S. Treasury Department raised an eyebrow, and Manus light-speed knelt down and fled to Singapore, cutting ties with the domestic market.
Manus opened the "exit strategy" door and gave everyone a formula for going overseas: want to go overseas, want big money? You have to sever ties with China.
If other enterprises follow suit later, everyone starts heading overseas to seek opportunities—what then?
Only focused on hedging American risks, completely disregarding the domestic regulatory stance.
In today's U.S.-China AI competition landscape, not taking an absolute stance = absolutely not taking a stance. There's no middle ground pleasing both sides.
Just relocating to Singapore isn't enough; the suggestion is to directly move to America and become a U.S. enterprise.
He's checking you precisely because you have heat, scale, and high visibility. You took American money last time, and America checked you too—now China is checking you, which is also lawful enforcement.
This time you're selling 2 billion, and you've announced a complete severance from China—so who else would they check?
Early this year Manus was being promoted as DeepSeek's number two, hyped up high. This meant to get benchmark money, the U.S. Treasury Department also had to review this financing.
Manus has this level of visibility—regulators in any country globally must scrutinize it, otherwise it's serious dereliction of duty. Plus Manus has always had an attitude of wanting it all, having it all, and wanting more.
Stirring things up domestically, collaborating with Alibaba's Qwen, showing off in state media.
Then the U.S. Treasury Department raised an eyebrow, and Manus light-speed knelt down and fled to Singapore, cutting ties with the domestic market.
Manus opened the "exit strategy" door and gave everyone a formula for going overseas: want to go overseas, want big money? You have to sever ties with China.
If other enterprises follow suit later, everyone starts heading overseas to seek opportunities—what then?
Only focused on hedging American risks, completely disregarding the domestic regulatory stance.
In today's U.S.-China AI competition landscape, not taking an absolute stance = absolutely not taking a stance. There's no middle ground pleasing both sides.
Just relocating to Singapore isn't enough; the suggestion is to directly move to America and become a U.S. enterprise.