I see. The following two statements (headlines) stand out:

* We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China

* We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations

That's not quite a ban of local ML inference, but it basically says that he doesn't want companies in China to create their own state of the art models.

While it is definitely over a decade at this point (over two in fact), some of this likely comes from the term [citation needed], that originated on Wikipedia, as a cynical backhanded response to unsourced claims. It has become a catch-all. Language and how it evolves is a pretty interesting subject.

I could have written more words, but they would have not conferred more meaning.