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Open or Closed? Where Are China’s AI Models Headed?

Songruowen Ma, Chenghao Sun, Songting Ding — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:14:47 +0000

Chinese government and AI companies have increasingly embraced openness as a key strategy amid the global AI competition. However, due to commercial pressure and associated risks with open-weight models, Beijing is likely to pursue a hybrid and tiered ecosystem where open and closed models coexist. This would allow China to broaden international adoption without giving up the commercial and strategic value of their most advanced models.

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“Is this AI generated?” The challenges of regulating and implementing AI-Generated content labelling in the EU and China

Jufang Wang — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:51:45 +0000

The proliferation of AI-generated content (AIGC) is widely seen as threatening our ability to agree on what is real or true. In response, a wave of regulations around the world has emerged in recent years. However, implementing these regulations faces some major challenges, including regulatory ambiguities, technical limitations, and cross-border interoperability. This policy report compares the regulatory approaches and implementation challenges in the EU and China.

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When geo-targeting technology helps: A brief case study on ‘Douyin Missing People’

Jufang Wang — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:43:01 +0000

This article studies how ByteDance (parent company of TikTok) uses geo-targeting information to help find over 20, 000 missing people in 7 years, and explores whether the ByteDance model can be adopted elsewhere.

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The era of digital surveillance: Authoritarianism vs. democracy?

Jufang Wang — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 21:37:45 +0000

Is the “authoritarianism vs. democracy” paradigm useful when it comes to digital surveillance? What are the factors that shape the public's views about digital surveillance? How to balance the benefits of surveillance technologies and the protection of civil rights? These are the key questions this report tries to answer.

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Policy Report | European policies towards Chinese tech companies: European interests, security risks and policy recommendations

Jufang Wang — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:16:58 +0000

This report identifies Europe's digital interests and analyses the perceived risks associated with Chinese tech companies, based on which it proposes a number of policy recommendations for European countries.

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