China's Approach to AI
China’s Approach to AI: Infrastructural Statecraft, Managed Pluralism Written on 23 September 2026. Posted in Article, Focus, Online Only.Author: Haiqing YuChina’s artificial intelligence (AI) trajectory is often characterised as ‘frugal innovation’ (Waters 2025), ‘self-reliance’ (Wang et al. 2025), or a state-controlled approach to innovation and diffusion (Roberts et al.
- ▪China’s Approach to AI: Infrastructural Statecraft, Managed Pluralism Written on 23 September 2026.
- ▪Posted in Article, Focus, Online Only.Author: Haiqing YuChina’s artificial intelligence (AI) trajectory is often characterised as ‘frugal innovation’ (Waters 2025), ‘self-reliance’ (Wang et al.
- ▪2025), or a state-controlled approach to innovation and diffusion (Roberts et al.
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| Original publisher | Made in China Journal |
| Canonical URL | https://madeinchinajournal.com/2026/09/23/chinas-approach-to-ai-infrastructural-statecraft-managed-pluralism/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:01:17 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T04:10:12.559Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T04:10:12.559Z |
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China’s Approach to AI: Infrastructural Statecraft, Managed Pluralism Written on 23 September 2026. Posted in Article, Focus, Online Only.Author: Haiqing YuChina’s artificial intelligence (AI) trajectory is often characterised as ‘frugal innovation’ (Waters 2025), ‘self-reliance’ (Wang et al. 2025), or a state-controlled approach to innovation and diffusion (Roberts et al. 2021). Many observers have focused on China’s AI policy and regulatory approach, portraying it as ‘vertical’ (as opposed to the ‘horizontal approach’ of the European Union’s AI Act) (O’Shaughnessy and Sheehan 2023), ‘iterative’ (Sheehan 2023), or ‘adaptive’ (Migliorini 2024).
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