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China’s Global AI Governance Initiative (GAIGI), introduced in 2023, reflects its bid to influence the international regulatory frameworks for artificial intelligence. The New Political Economy (NPE) perspective offers a broader lens through which to view GAIGI as China’s strategic instrument for promoting its sovereignty, security, and power at the global level, rather than merely a technical framework. The governance logic of NPE is embedded in norms, practices, and rules that frame the political-economic behaviour and derive efficiency, legitimacy, distribution of responsibility, and power through hybrid mechanisms. In China’s case, a mix of rules, incentives, and actors characterises its governance model, bringing about overlaps between the state, private entities, and the international arena. By integrating China’s internal governance model into the international sphere, GAIGI demonstrates this reasoning. Political discourse in China frames AI as a dual-use, system-level risk. Here, the main argument is that governance should prevent disorder (social, political, economic) as much as it promotes growth. Against this backdrop, it becomes contingent to explore how China’s domestic AI governance influences its approach to Global AI governance; how it navigates AI governance through the multiple objectives of sovereignty, regime stability and security vis-à-vis governance; and how it impacts global governance debates.

Speaker

Rityusha Mani Tiwary is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. Additionally, she is an Institute of Eminence Fellow at the Delhi School of Transnational Affairs, University of Delhi and an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. She is also the Associate Editor of the journal China Report. Her doctoral research unpacked the interplay of leadership, power and hegemony in East Asia and China’s role in shaping regionalism in the twin domain of political economy and foreign policy. She has held research positions in India, China, and Germany, including as Visiting Scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2012) and Visiting Researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg (2009). Her single-authored volume on China’s Regionalism is under publication. She employs critical theory-comparativist lenses to study political economy, security, and foreign policy in China and India. Additionally, she is working on an edited volume on China’s Domestic Governance.

Chair

Ravi Bhoothalingam is a scholar and business leader with degrees from St. Stephen’s College, University of Cambridge, and Harvard Business School. Trained by renowned Sinologist Joseph Needham, he has deep expertise in psycholinguistics, the scientific method, and Chinese culture. He has led expeditions across China, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet, and Myanmar. His corporate career includes senior roles such as President of The Oberoi Group, MD of VST Industries, Director at ITC Ltd., and Head of Personnel Worldwide at BATplc. Ravi has served on multiple corporate boards and was on the Court of Governors at Administrative Staff College of India. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Mentor at Ashoka University.

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