China: The World’s Most Developed Binding AI Rulebook

How China built the world’s densest stack of binding AI rules — algorithm filing, deepfake consent, generative-AI licensing-in-all-but-name, and mandatory content labeling — and what its vertical, iterative playbook means next to the EU’s horizontal one.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. The vertical playbook: how China regulates AI
2. Recommendation algorithms and the filing system
3. Deep synthesis and the labeling regime
4. The generative-AI gauntlet: measures, standards, enforcement
5. China vs the EU — and China vs the world