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Where’s China’s AI Safety Institute?
AI Safety Institutes from Kenya to Singapore are networking in San Francisco this week. What about China?
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Lily Ottinger
1
SB 1047 with Socialist Characteristics: China’s Algorithm Registry in the LLM Era
What do the regs really do?
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Nicholas Welch
1
Soviet Ruins and China's Future
Why Beijing studies the USSR
 • 
Lily Ottinger
 and 
Jordan Schneider
2
Why China Stopped Liberalizing
From Deng to the Death of Xi. Plus: can engagement with authoritarian states ever work?
 • 
Lily Ottinger
 and 
Jordan Schneider
3
Autocracy and Stagnation: How Imperial Exams Shaped China's Destiny
Keju's role in slowing technological development
 • 
Lily Ottinger
 and 
Jordan Schneider
Tech Policy at the Third Plenum
New Productive Forces, AI Safety, R&D, State vs Private Sector
 • 
Nicholas Welch
Why America Didn't Invade Taiwan
Operation Causeway in WWII and what that means for Xi
 • 
Jordan Schneider
, 
Ryan Hauser
, and 
Nicholas Welch
3
Deterring a Taiwan Invasion (Pt. II)
Can irrational actors ever really be deterred?
 • 
Jordan Schneider
, 
Nicholas Welch
, and 
Lily Ottinger
3
Deterring a Taiwan Invasion (Pt. II)
Can irrational actors ever really be deterred?
 • 
Jordan Schneider
, 
Nicholas Welch
, and 
Lily Ottinger
Deterring a Taiwan Invasion
Is there still time to stave off WWIII?
 • 
Jordan Schneider
, 
Nicholas Welch
, and 
Lily Ottinger
1
Purges! The Curious Case of the Disappearing Commanders
How Xi’s second corruption crackdown spells long term trouble for China's military
1
How ERNIE, China's ChatGPT, Cracks Under Pressure
The ChinaTalk team speed-runs a ban
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Irene Zhang
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