China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at Private Firms

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China is expanding travel restrictions to include top AI talent working at private firms, making it harder for foreign companies to poach them and limiting their ability to travel abroad.

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-26/china-expands-travel-curbs-to-top-ai-talent-at-private-firms](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-26/china-expands-travel-curbs-to-top-ai-talent-at-private-firms) Now it will be much harder to poach Chinese AI talents like the former Qwen head Junyang Lin. It is quite sad that they will also have a hard time to travel to foreign countries for fun. Non-paywalled version from Straits Times: [https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-expands-travel-curbs-to-top-ai-talent-at-private-firms](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-expands-travel-curbs-to-top-ai-talent-at-private-firms)
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