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Seedance, Kling and the Chinese AI Video Ecosystem
China proposed new rules to label AI content, but enforcement is failing, driven by economic priorities and geopolitical propaganda
 • Nick Corvino
Xi’s Military Meltdown
With Jon Czin
 • Jordan Schneider and Lily Ottinger
Where’s China’s AI Safety Institute?
AI Safety Institutes from Kenya to Singapore are networking in San Francisco this week. What about China?
 • Lily Ottinger
SB 1047 with Socialist Characteristics: China’s Algorithm Registry in the LLM Era
What do the regs really do?
 • Nicholas Welch
Soviet Ruins and China's Future
Why Beijing studies the USSR
 • Lily Ottinger and Jordan Schneider
Why China Stopped Liberalizing
From Deng to the Death of Xi. Plus: can engagement with authoritarian states ever work?
 • Lily Ottinger and Jordan Schneider
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
Deterring a Taiwan Invasion (Pt. II)
Can irrational actors ever really be deterred?
 • Jordan Schneider, Nicholas Welch, and Lily Ottinger
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
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