Operator-grade cards drawn from From Lab to Life. Each one compresses a chapter-length argument into a single decision tool. Use them in briefings, due diligence, and procurement reviews.
These cards assume the same reader: a policy, governance, or strategy professional who needs operational understanding of China's AI ecosystem and does not have time to become a specialist.
Each reference answers one question. Read them in any order. Together they explain how capability, compliance, and distribution became interdependent — and what that means for anyone building on Chinese-origin AI.
Built for the briefing room. Read on screen, print as a one-pager, or pull a single card into a deck. Each links back to the chapters in From Lab to Life that develop the argument in full.
The four-agency architecture — CAC, MIIT, MPS, SAMR — that shapes how AI products launch in China. Replaces a Cold War analogy with a working org chart and a release tempo measured in days.
A four-dimension diagnostic for Western enterprises considering Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, or Kimi. Separates universal open-model hygiene from China-elevated structural exposure, and turns exposure into a deployment decision.
Three parallel clocks from 2010 to 2025: Chinese corporate AI launches, U.S. export controls, and the Chinese regulatory stack. Reveals the conditions under which capability, compliance, and distribution became interdependent.
The three cards stack vertically into a single argument: an org chart, a buyer's lens, and the fifteen-year run-up that produced both. Pull whichever is closest to the question on the table.
Start with Reference 01 if you need to explain Chinese AI governance to a principal who still treats "the state" as one actor. It replaces a Cold War analogy with an org chart.
Use Reference 02 when your team is weighing a specific Chinese open-weight model for a specific use case. It separates universal open-model diligence from China-elevated exposure and produces a defensible deployment decision.
Pull Reference 03 when you need to show, on one page, how fifteen years of Chinese corporate launches, U.S. export controls, and Chinese regulation evolved in the same room. The visual does not prove the thesis. The book does. The visual shows where to look.
A mechanism-level operational manual for the world's second-largest AI ecosystem. August 2026.
Built from primary Chinese-language regulatory texts, company filings, and technical documentation. Drawing on the CAC algorithm filing registry, MIIT licensing publications, MPS cybersecurity grading standards, SAMR enforcement decisions, and corporate disclosures from Baidu, Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and DeepSeek.
