Angela Zhang

🚀✨I really poured myself into China’s platform regulation and governance in the past few years, and I’m thrilled to announce that my book 📖 “High Wire” is released today !🎈🎉 Dive into its key insights with this 4-minute trailer 🎥💼.

A recent Chinese court decision held that a firm cannot lawfully terminate an employee merely because AI can now automate much of the employee’s work. Given the importance of this case, I believe the decision has been closely studied within the judicial and bureaucratic systems

So far, governments around the world have done little to address this problem. What the Chinese state is trying to do is essentially buy more time for its workers.

To put it bluntly, the most effective way to prevent AI from replacing humans too quickly is to raise the legal cost of replacement.

Op-Ed: In the global AI race, "Americans should not confuse being first with being safe." @AlexSYang and @AngelaZhangLA analyze what advanced AI tools means in an interconnected world: buff.ly/PJuFjha

US Treasury Secretary @SecScottBessent has hailed @AnthropicAI’s Mythos model as a breakthrough that could help the US win the AI race. But Americans should not confuse being first with being safe, write @AlexSYang and @AngelaZhangHK. bit.ly/42lYbmy

After all, China has a huge domestic market and deep talent pool, so the government does not need to worry too much about a lack of animal spirits . If anything, the concern is now the opposite: there is TOO MUCH competition.

3. the government has made a deliberate calculation that the benefits of keeping the platform relatively closed—namely, preserving its technical know-how—outweigh the costs, including the potential chilling effect on entrepreneurship.

China Orders the Unwinding of Meta’s Acquisition of an A.I. Start-Up nytimes.com/2026/04/27/bus…