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July 28, 2026
While Europe holds meetings about AI, China is building it.
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“All Necessary Measures”: The Distillation War Goes Diplomatic — As Chinese Users Quietly Flock to Claude
Beijing threatens retaliation over US “smear campaign” sanctions threats. But the real story is the one both governments ignore: Chinese users are flocking to Claude while Americans flock to DeepSeek. The walls don’t work.
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China threatens "all necessary measures" over US sanctions. But while both governments build walls, their own citizens climb over them — Chinese users flock to Claude, Americans to DeepSeek.
Our members-only forecast explains why the distillation dispute will produce symbolic sanctions but no real decoupling, why China's "restrict the powerful features" signal will harden into formal two-tier policy within six months, and why both governments are being forced toward enforcement theater as the gap between control rhetoric and uncontrollable reality widens.
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WAICO: China Just Built the Alliance That Could Rewrite Global AI Rules — And It’s Headquartered in Shanghai
29 founding nations. A Shanghai secretariat. A path to shape UN AI policy. China’s WAICO alliance is now a functioning institution — and watchchina.ai forecast it a week before it launched.
Xi Steps Onto the Stage: China Makes Its Global AI Power Play in Shanghai
For the first time, Xi Jinping will personally headline China’s flagship AI summit — launching a global alliance built to ensure no single country dominates AI. Everyone knows which country he means.
The Admission Beijing Didn’t Want to Make: China Just Dropped Its Jobs Target Because of AI
In a system that governs by targets, China just deleted its jobs number for the first time in decades. The silence is an admission: Beijing no longer knows how many jobs will survive its own AI revolution.