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Reading Beijing
What is China building, in its own words?
Beijing publishes its intentions in plans, standards and ministry notices that few people outside China read in the original. These pieces read them first, often before any official translation exists, and follow what they say to where it leads.
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29 pieces, in the order they were written
Each dot is one piece, placed on its publication date. The path below walks through the ones to read first.
1 of 5 · The Pacific Divide · Dec 2, 2025
China Just Published Its AI Blueprint. Almost No One in the West Read It.
What Three Documents Reveal About Where This Is Actually Going
Read on The Pacific Divide2 of 5 · The Diplomat · Mar 10, 2026
China's 5-Year Plan Has Moved Beyond the Chip War. Washington Hasn't Noticed.
Read3 of 5 · The Pacific Divide · May 12, 2026
China's AI Strategy Isn't Theft
Five Documents Show What It Actually Is.
Read on The Pacific Divide4 of 5 · The Pacific Divide · Apr 17, 2026
Why China's New Planning Law Is the Opposite of What It Looks Like
Why the 15th Five-Year Plan's National Development Planning Law is not what Western observers think it is.
Read on The Pacific Divide5 of 5 · The Pacific Divide · Jun 18, 2026
Beijing Published the Blueprint for a National AI Agent Operating System. Nobody in the English-Language Press Covered It.
What a buried MIIT document reveals about China’s real AI infrastructure strategy, and why it matters more than any model benchmark.
Read on The Pacific DivideEverything on this question
Jul 28, 2026A Chinese Model Did American ForensicsSubscribersAnd Beijing filed loss of control under ethics. Two AI safety taxonomies, one blind spot.The Pacific Divide
Jul 16, 2026China Registered the Humans Last Year. Yesterday It Registered the Machines.SubscribersWhile the West debates whether AI is conscious, China decided where it stands.The Pacific Divide
Jun 18, 2026Beijing Published the Blueprint for a National AI Agent Operating System. Nobody in the English-Language Press Covered It.SubscribersWhat a buried MIIT document reveals about China’s real AI infrastructure strategy, and why it matters more than any model benchmark.The Pacific Divide
May 19, 2026The Question the Officials Keep Asking Me Is Wrong: When China will build a Mythos?SubscribersPolicymakers, diplomats, and officials keep asking me when China will build a MythosThe Pacific Divide
May 12, 2026China's AI Strategy Isn't TheftSubscribersFive Documents Show What It Actually Is.The Pacific Divide
May 5, 2026China Classified Data as Land. I Think I Know Why.SubscribersThe Cocoon and the StreetThe Pacific Divide
Apr 17, 2026Why China's New Planning Law Is the Opposite of What It Looks LikeSubscribersWhy the 15th Five-Year Plan's National Development Planning Law is not what Western observers think it is.The Pacific Divide
Mar 12, 2026Noah Smith Says There Is No Third Option. I Have the Receipts That Prove Otherwise.SubscribersThe Pacific Divide
Mar 10, 2026China's 5-Year Plan Has Moved Beyond the Chip War. Washington Hasn't Noticed.The Diplomat
Mar 6, 2026While Washington Fights the Chip War, Beijing Just Published an Outline of Its AI War PlanSubscribersChina's 15th Five-Year Plan Outline doesn't mention semiconductors once. That's the point.The Pacific Divide
Feb 14, 2026Foreign Affairs Published the Summary. Here Are the Documents.SubscribersThe Pacific Divide
Dec 2, 2025China Just Published Its AI Blueprint. Almost No One in the West Read It.SubscribersWhat Three Documents Reveal About Where This Is Actually GoingThe Pacific Divide
Sep 23, 2025China Solved AI Without Our Training Data. Now They're Writing the RulesSubscribersWe Thought We Were Winning. We Already Lost.The Pacific Divide
Sep 9, 2025China's "AI+" UnmaskedSubscribersThe Contract That Shows How China Builds Consensus, Not Just CodeThe Pacific Divide
Aug 26, 2025China Knows These Drones Will Crash. They Ordered 22,000 Anyway.SubscribersHere's What That Means for AI.The Pacific Divide
Aug 19, 2025Why Chinese Engineers Care About Waltham, MassachusettsSubscribersA Technical Document Reveals How China Studies the Bay State's Innovation EcosystemThe Pacific Divide
Jul 29, 2025The Quantum Leapfrog: How China Plans to Outpace Silicon ValleySubscribersFrom policy documents to production lines, inside Beijing's quantum computing strategyThe Pacific Divide
Jun 17, 2025The Fortress CitySubscribersHow Dalian Reveals China's New Model for Military-Civil IntegrationThe Pacific Divide
Jun 3, 2025The Smart City Gap That Could Cost America EverythingWhy China's Vehicle-City Integration Threatens U.S. Economic DominanceThe Pacific Divide
May 24, 2025I Found China's AI Playbook. You Haven't.Primary source intelligence on the U.S.-China AI raceThe Pacific Divide
May 22, 2025The Great AI Talent ArbitrageWhy Your Next AI Hire Might Come from Beijing, Not BostonThe Pacific Divide
2026Written evidence CHI0021On the permanent parliamentary record, citing the Chinese primary sourcesUK House of Commons
