General governance:

• Markus Anderljung

• https://www.matsprogram.org/mentors?track=governance-strategy

• https://sparai.org/projects/’

• https://www.antonleicht.me/ (on trade and middle-AI economies)

• Concordia AI

• Safe AI Forum: https://saif.org/

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jhuSbNinrrZ54s8Mw/china-x-ai-reference-list-august-2025-update

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OJcHhhBfNwEbeUaT-d4RIq58I1oJ3XGxu2yCzsnieuo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9gc71zl8btmy

Difficulty of studying China. Even for Chinese speaking folks and with lived experience in China, studying China remains a challenge. For the academics and researchers who deeply understand China, they lack the up to date

How China makes decisions: https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2023/07/chinas-ai-regulations-and-how-they-get-made?lang=en

How Chinese companies make decisions

China

• unified governance vs democracy effect on effective ai distribution

• understansing elite politics

• technocrats (particularly CS, AI educated) in the central committee

• returnees of foreign educated/tech ceos

• culture and founding of Chinese big tech

• profile on Lee Kai Fu, Ma Yi, Harry Shum

• https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/china-related-ai-safety-and-governance-paths/?int_campaign=agi_lp

• look into liang as demis

• hangzhou’s visionaries —> how is the provincial government of Zhejiang helping Hangzhou? Who in the Hangzhou government is helping the ecosystem? Alibaba’s role?

• hangzhou probably communicates more to silicon valley than beijing

• deep dive into provincial competition

• hot take: china is leaving the west to think about safety (existential and technical safety work)

• the licensing requirement and process for ai models in China hangzhou probably communicates more to silicon valley than beijing

Hong Kong

• What does AI as a core industry mean?

• It is like saying I want energy as a core industry

• do you mean producer? do you mean application? do you mean development?

• https://concordia-ai.com/research/state-of-ai-safety-in-singapore/ (for HK?)

• singaporean along the road

• https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3325910/hong-kong-roll-out-ai-use-200-public-service-procedures-end-2027

• What does this mean for SMEs

• https://www.hkcgi.org.hk/thought-leadership/publication-detail/2620

My AI searches:

• https://www.perplexity.ai/search/you-are-the-worlds-leading-exp-L55M5kgaTMCvuYvPAchmIw

• https://grok.com/c/1588abb7-8442-48b7-b262-2761791f93a8

• https://www.perplexity.ai/search/you-are-an-expert-think-tank-r-I3ExlQXOTNOe096Y0vDXvg

Actionable steps

• HKU journalism (esp the Karen Hao people)

• Connect with SCMP people

People I have a list of people in HK/SG working on AI safety

China/skills:

• https://afraw.substack.com/

• How to use WeChat for primary sources