China state newspaper blasts Anthropic's calls to slow AI as 'Cold War' tactic (reuters.com)

Its not even a thinly veiled attack on China, https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier explicitly calls out China as the boogey man.

I'm by no means a fan of all of China's methods – its a country riddled with issues and contradictions, but can any country claim otherwise, can the US?

I've often wondered how executives and politicians can be so brazenly dishonest and still hold a straight face. One explanation is they really believe the lies they tell, but I can't believe that in this case.

They are not completely opposed to regulations. Reuters is blocked, but this appears to be the source. Amodei spews so much daily nonsense that it is hard to pin down which one exactly they reacted to:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202609/1370462.shtml