China just put AI engineers in the same bucket as nuclear scientists. Founders, researchers, and execs working on advanced AI at private firms — DeepSeek, Alibaba, the whole Tier-1 list — now need state approval before any overseas trip. Previous rule was 'report your itinerary.' New rule is 'wait for permission.' This is brain-drain insurance. The model arms race has officially escalated from chip exports to human exports. We're tracking the AI policy shifts on www.contentbuffer.com — geopolitics is now a model-performance metric. How long before the U.S. quietly mirrors this on its top frontier labs? #AIPolicy #China #DeepSeek #Alibaba #AIRegulation #Geopolitics #TechWar