In the latest The Azure Forum for Contemporary Security Strategy #StrategicInsight Rogier Creemers writes how China's new rules on cross-border data transfers 'will make life much easier for data exporters, as they raise thresholds for security reviews'.

China Digital

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Some additional thoughts that further shows this NYT pod is sadly a hit piece on Tesla with a tropey China backdrop -- uninformative and misleading

1. if Tesla was the industrial 'catfish' China lured to boost itself, well, it almost killed BYD. When Tesla set up Shanghai…

Some of my thoughts on China's data export rules, now published by The Azure Forum for Contemporary Security Strategy: azureforum.substack.com/p/what-do-chin…

Was lovely for our group to meet with Merethe Borge MacLeod and her Great Britain China Centre colleagues, plus friends like Kerry Brown and Kate A Larsen 李可婷, at Asia House yesterday

An interesting think tank report, sadly diminished by a misleading headline

Half of this 3.4B to BYD came in the form of purchase subsidies, i.e. incentives for consumers to buy EVs. The fact that BYD got the most just means people wanted BYD EVs the most.

Tesla was 2nd.

Thank you all for coming to Asia Society France for a wonderful panel Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) Duncan Clark Neysun Mahboubi Miguel Otero Stéphanie Balme Una Bērziņa-Čerenkova China Digital Nadine godehart Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 Jacques deLisle Paul Gewirtz Susan Thornton

Right before our train is about to depart >> right after the 90 minute delay was announced

Some really interesting papers on China's digital impact on North Africa, Latin America and the Belt-Road countries here: tandfonline.com/toc/utis20/40/2

The CSET team has now published a full translation of this key document.

It spells out the specific tests AI providers must conduct on their models to be compliant w/ 🇨🇳's generative AI regulation:
cset.georgetown.edu/publication/ch…

Thread below with some key differences

First time doing this, but I wrote a very rough analysis of the Cyberspace Administration of China’s new generative AI (GenAI) model registration data, comparing it with the similar deep synthesis algorithmic registry. 🧵

My doctoral alma mater is hiring (in fact, you will be working for my PhD supervisor) an assistant professor in intellectual property law (tenurable after 18 months) vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht…

Just read through the Expert Proposal for China’s AI Law from March this year (h/t Matt Sheehan), here are are some highlights: 🧵

That so many people buy into this reflects:

(i) how we as a country are now so far removed from manufacturing that we understand so little of it (as demonstrated here and many similar replies), and

(ii) the difference between ideas and execution.

In his analysis of recently translated documents, China Digital notes that Chinese policymakers are most concerned with managing risks AI technology poses for regime security but see the private sector as integral in regulating these issues concurrently with the government.

Sometimes you don't need to read between the lines. As Nigel Inkster once told me, the challenge often is to get Westerners to understand that the CCP means what it says.

Register for Emilie Szwajnoch's April 16 talk on the #Chinese social credit system. I'm happy to host Emilie that week at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal !
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Call for Papers for the European China Law Studies Association's annual conference (in Hong Kong, this year) is now out: webapp3.law.cuhk.edu.hk/conf/20240919/