Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Beijing is leading the way in AI regulation, releasing groundbreaking new strategies to govern algorithms, chatbots, and more. Global partners need a better understanding of what, exactly, this regulation entails, what it says about China’s AI priorities, and what lessons other AI regulators can learn.
Washington can’t decouple from China without Europe’s help, while China hopes to soften Europe’s stance and has focused its diplomacy there. This has put Brussels in a pivotal position.
For the West, concerns about dependency are often cast in terms of China’s dominance in producing critical goods such as pharmaceuticals or the lithium essential in most batteries.
Paul Haenle will moderate a discussion with Maha Yahya, Yu Jie, and Benjamin Ho on the key issues in China-Middle East relations. This panel is the fifth of the Carnegie Global Dialogue Series 2022-2023 and will also be recorded and published as a China in the World podcast.
As China seeks greater commercial and military advantage across the world’s oceans, its expansive global network of commercial ports both reflects and amplifies its growing power.
Some degree of Chinese influence displacing U.S. initiatives is unavoidable, but the United States can leverage individual strength points to collaborate with both Brazil and Mexico.
Who makes the rules that underpin order in the maritime domain? Is “China’s law of the sea” already in effect in maritime East Asia? Ashley J. Tellis, Isaac B. Kardon, and Fiona Cunningham discuss China’s maritime strategy in East Asia, and preview Kardon’s new book.
Washington also needs to re-engage in negotiations with China to manage difficulties in the bilateral relationship. And to better compete, the United States should get back into the business of signing trade deals.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has followed a unique, locally focused strategy in Türkiye to adapt to the Turkish economic and political environment.
Rather than changing maritime rules, China is gradually changing the international environment in which those rules take effect. The effective scope of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is observably narrower where China is involved.