Context: No evidence was published with the post, and Politico reported that Kratsios "did not provide evidence to back up the claims" and that the post was not coordinated with the Commerce Department, which holds Entity List authority. Moonshot denies the allegation; China's Ministry of Commerce called it evidence-free on July 27. The technical premise drew scepticism from within the administration's own orbit — one person close to the White House told Politico the model was benchmarking ahead of Fable in places and "You can't just distill your way ahead of somebody." Corroborating context, not proof of this claim: Anthropic reported in February 2026 that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts — a report that predates Kimi K3 and does not name it.