The facts
The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to restrict American investments in sensitive technologies like supercomputing and artificial intelligence in countries including China, Russia, and North Korea. This initiative aims to prevent adversaries from using U.S. capital to advance their military capabilities. The program, which began with an executive order in 2023, was expanded by Congress in December 2025 to cover more technologies and nations. The proposed rule would include investments in hypersonic systems, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence, with Treasury using the term "superintelligence" for AI. Experts note this rule signals market awareness of capital flows and their impact on military capabilities. China's Foreign Ministry stated that the U.S. should not overstretch the concept of national security and should avoid discriminatory measures.
Our take
The U.S. Treasury Department, in a move of breathtaking, ass-dragging slowness, has finally proposed a rule that maybe, possibly, could start to prevent American finance bros from directly bankrolling the next generation of weapons for our declared adversaries. It only took them until the enemy had the fucking blueprints. This isn’t policy; it’s a confession of prior, catastrophic negligence wrapped in bureaucratic bullshit like “superintelligence.” You useless pricks were the superintelligence gap all along. The rule, which began as a limp executive order in 2023 and needed Congress to kick its balls into gear by 2025, now ‘proposes’ to look at money flowing into Chinese AI, Russian hypersonics, and North Korean biotech. Great. You’ve identified the problem you created. The market-awareness these ‘experts’ are signaling is the awareness that the U.S. financial system has been a bigger asset to the PLA than half their own spy rings. China’s Foreign Ministry, with the gall of a pickpocket criticizing a victim for having loose pockets, says the U.S. shouldn’t ‘overstretch’ national security. Sorry, you greedy cunts, but when your entire military advancement is funded by the VC dickheads you’re trying to vaporize, maybe ‘stretching’ is the bare fucking minimum. This entire saga is the government equivalent of watching your roommate sell your couch to a burglar, then proposing a household rule that he ‘consider’ not pawning the TV next. It’s a pathetic, post-facto pantomime of competence from an institution that has, for years, been the willing, fee-collecting middleman in its own geopolitical suicide. The rule doesn’t ban the investments; it just makes the grifters file some paperwork. So brave. So bold. So utterly, contemptibly late. The Treasury Department is a clown show handing out ‘Please Don’t Fund Our Destruction’ flyers after the demolition charges are already wired and paid for with an American Express Black Card. Fuck your proposed rule. Try a spine. And maybe an actual law with teeth, you cowardly, complicit dickheads.”
