On October 16, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) issued Announcement No. 48, proposing revisions to China’s Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or ...

The EU’s official texts have now been released, and they clearly support some of the assessments I made in my previous ...

The China-EU trade talks have now wrapped up, with both sides issuing a joint statement. China also released a separate press readout. The Chinese and EU accounts of the talks can be found at the ...

On October 8, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) released a policy statement titled Policy Position on the Renminbi Exchange Rate, systematically addressing recent debates over the valuation of the ...

Today is a genuinely meaningful day for China’s AI industry — and arguably for China’s semiconductor industry as a whole. Alibaba’s chip arm, T-Head, has officially unveiled a high-end AI chip called ...

Distinguished colleagues and guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends, Seventy years ago, a group of young scholars first put forward the concept of artificial intelligence at the Dartmouth Conference in ...

China’s approach to data governance, after the dense legislative sprint of the past decade, has moved into a quieter, more procedural phase. The big statutes are already on the books, and the work now ...

On June 17, 2025, Legal Daily, one of China’s most authoritative legal newspapers, published a front-page report titled “Multiple NPC Representatives Propose Drafting an Artificial Intelligence Law: ...

MCP (Model Context Protocol): An open protocol proposed by Anthropic in late 2024 that defines how AI models call external tools and data sources. It has already been adopted by a large developer ...

On January 2, following a brief one-day New Year holiday, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued its No.1 announcement of 2025 sanctioning 28 U.S. companies by adding them to its “Export Control ...