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Xi Jinping announces China’s Global AI Governance Initiative

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Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China: Global AI Governance InitiativeAlso reported by Akin Gump, UN Digital Library (A/78/565)

President Xi Jinping announced the Global AI Governance Initiative at the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in October 2023, and the foreign ministry published the text on 20 October. It calls for a people-centred approach, testing and assessment based on AI risk levels, more representation for developing countries and UN-based talks on an international AI governance institution, and opposes using AI to manipulate public opinion or interfere in other countries’ internal affairs.

Why it matters

China put forward its own terms for global AI rules, aimed at developing countries and centred on the UN, two weeks before it joined the Bletchley Declaration.

When
20 Oct 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0010
Who
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China; Xi Jinping

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0010: “Xi Jinping announces China’s Global AI Governance Initiative.” wheresthe.ai, 20 Oct 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-global-ai-governance-initiative-2023-10/ (source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China: Global AI Governance Initiative).

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