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A fundamental divide in how AI safety is defined globally: democracies emphasise harm reduction and accountability; China frames “AI safety” as safe for the Party — and is actively exporting that model worldwide.

What Australian strategy looks like when the ally underwriting our security no longer reliably shares our values.

Beijing's bet that nationally coordinated compute, open-weight models, and sheer deployment scale can outrun a US lead in frontier capability.

How China's AI systems extend the party's capacity for control — and what this means for human rights inside and outside China.

China's development of AI-driven influence and persuasion tools, and their strategic implications for democratic societies.

How foreign influencers are recruited and deployed as an instrument of CCP global propaganda — with implications for platform governance worldwide.

How two of China's largest platforms enable Beijing to curate — and censor — information environments beyond China's borders.

A deep mapping of China's AI and surveillance companies, their global footprint, and their relationships with the state security apparatus.

One of the first systematic open-source investigations of the scale and geography of China's mass detention system in Xinjiang.

After the Capitol riots, far-right platforms fled US infrastructure — and found a welcome home on Chinese and Russian servers.

MrBeast's entry into China via Bilibili — and what it reveals about how authoritarian platforms absorb Western content.

A response to TikTok's “xenophobia” framing — and the case for bespoke legislation covering state-controlled apps.