Chinese Politics

Where’s China’s AI Safety Institute?

AI Safety Institutes from Kenya to Singapore are networking in San Francisco this week. What about China?

Nov 20 •

SB 1047 with Socialist Characteristics: China’s Algorithm Registry in the LLM Era

What do the regs really do?

Nov 14 •

Soviet Ruins and China's Future

Why Beijing studies the USSR

Oct 21 •

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Jordan Schneider

Why China Stopped Liberalizing

From Deng to the Death of Xi. Plus: can engagement with authoritarian states ever work?

Oct 17 •

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Jordan Schneider

Autocracy and Stagnation: How Imperial Exams Shaped China's Destiny

Keju's role in slowing technological development

Sep 23 •

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Jordan Schneider

Tech Policy at the Third Plenum

New Productive Forces, AI Safety, R&D, State vs Private Sector

Aug 5 •

Why America Didn't Invade Taiwan

Operation Causeway in WWII and what that means for Xi

Jun 6 •

Jordan Schneider

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Deterring a Taiwan Invasion (Pt. II)

Can irrational actors ever really be deterred?

Jun 5 •

Jordan Schneider

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Deterring a Taiwan Invasion (Pt. II)

Can irrational actors ever really be deterred?

Jun 5 •

Jordan Schneider

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Deterring a Taiwan Invasion

Is there still time to stave off WWIII?

Jun 3 •

Jordan Schneider

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Purges! The Curious Case of the Disappearing Commanders

How Xi’s second corruption crackdown spells long term trouble for China's military

Sep 19, 2023

How ERNIE, China's ChatGPT, Cracks Under Pressure

The ChinaTalk team speed-runs a ban

Sep 5, 2023 •

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