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Issue Nº 4 · China beat · 23 July 2026
Support, Assist, Cooperate
China spent the WAIC week founding the first intergovernmental AI body and pledging AI to the Global South, with 5,000 training places and a weather model bound for thirty countries. The offer is real. So is the 国家情报法 obligation it ships with.
Issue Nº 3 · China beat · 16 July 2026
The List
When Alibaba banned Claude Code, the notice did not call it a competitor or a legal risk. It placed the tool on a 高风险软件名单, a high-risk software list, and five days later a ministry vulnerability platform said the same, with version numbers. How a corporate compliance term crosses into a state security instrument.
Issue Nº 2 · Russia beat · 9 July 2026
From Scratch, For Whom?
GigaChat 3.1 Ultra and T-pro 2.0 are real domestic builds. The story this quarter isn't the capability gain, it's the distribution strategy: sovereignty repackaged as a Global South export pitch, with a new AI law to match.
Issue Nº 1 · China beat · 2 July 2026
Implementation Opinions on the Standardized Application and Innovative Development of Intelligent Agents
China's first policy framework for AI agents reads, in English, as an adoption push: a national registry, decision-authority tiers, and recall power were never translated.
Parallel Frontier is written by Caroline Swartz. Chinese language & politics (NYU), Russian politics MSc (KCL), Mandarin SIGINT spanning defensive and offensive cyber operations, security operations leadership, short- and long-form reporting in five languages, AI safety research, and an MA in computational linguistics in progress (UCL).