{"id":100758,"date":"2026-04-27T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/china-blocks-metas-acquisition-of-ai-startup-manus\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:11:10","slug":"china-blocks-metas-acquisition-of-ai-startup-manus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/china-blocks-metas-acquisition-of-ai-startup-manus\/","title":{"rendered":"China blocks Meta&#8217;s acquisition of AI startup Manus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>China said on Monday that it has decided to block <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\">meta<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>Acquisition of Chinese-origin Singaporean AI startup Manus for $2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s state planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, said it had decided to impose a moratorium on foreign investment in Manus in accordance with laws and regulations, and asked the parties involved to withdraw the acquisition transaction.<\/p>\n<p>The deal had attracted scrutiny from both China and Washington, as lawmakers in the US bar American investors from directly supporting Chinese AI companies. Meanwhile, Beijing has stepped up efforts to discourage Chinese AI founders from doing business abroad.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Annick Bao contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\">Choose CNBC as your favorite source on Google and never miss a moment of the most trusted name in business news.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China said on Monday that it has decided to block metaAcquisition of Chinese-origin Singaporean AI startup Manus for $2 billion. China&#8217;s state planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, said it had decided to impose a moratorium on foreign investment in Manus in accordance with laws and regulations, and asked the parties involved to withdraw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2310,1969,2721,3328,3327,5160],"class_list":{"0":"post-100758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-acquisition","9":"tag-blocks","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-manus","12":"tag-metas","13":"tag-startup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100761,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100758\/revisions\/100761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}