The White House is busy trying to cut off Chinese tech giants over national security fears. But a crypto venture tied to the president’s family is happily taking their AI models and selling them to the highest bidder.
It is hard to fight a tech war when your own family is doing business with the other side.
The administration spends its days trying to lock down American technology and keep it away from Beijing. They put heavy restrictions on Chinese firms, calling them national security threats. But a Hong Kong venture called WorldClaw is doing the exact opposite.
WorldClaw lets people pay with crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial, a company backed by the Trump family. Nearly half of the artificial intelligence models you can buy on their site were built by the Chinese companies Washington is trying to freeze out.
The platform offers models from Alibaba and Baidu. The Pentagon labeled them as military-aligned companies. There is also code from Z.ai, a firm sitting on a strict government blacklist.
Sam Bresnick, a researcher at Georgetown University, pointed out the obvious contradiction.
“As the U.S. government tries to respond to the rise and threat of Chinese AI, it seems hypocritical to go out through WorldClaw to use these tools from China to try and make a bunch of money,” Bresnick said.
The legal loophole here is wide. Regular people are technically allowed to use these models in the United States. But the security risks do not just vanish because a transaction is legal.
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Daniel Remler, a former State Department policy advisor, warned that leaning on these specific models opens a back door. He noted users could face monitoring by the Chinese government, censored answers, or hidden code designed to hijack the system.
Meanwhile, the president’s sons are pushing the platform online. Eric Trump called the setup “the future of finance.” The family has already pulled in over a billion dollars from these token sales.
The policy on paper is all about drawing a hard line in the sand. But the reality on the ground is a lot messier. When there is serious money on the table, the borders get blurry very fast.
