The first three annual conferences hosted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) on China’s Digital Governance examined a broad range of issues related to China’s digital governance, including data governance, artificial intelligence (AI) governance, emerging technologies, digital trade, and digital assets.
Last year, the focus narrowed to more specific themes shaped by recent developments in China’s digital governance and the intensifying technological rivalry between the United States and China. These included China’s industry-specific approach to AI development in the context of global AI competition, as well as regulatory developments in digital assets, particularly stablecoins, in Hong Kong and the United States.
This year, CIGI and the Long U.S.-China Institute at the University of California, Irvine will convene scholars and policy experts from the United States and Canada for a focused discussion of two linked transformations in global governance. The first session will examine how China’s technological ambitions, in the context of intensifying U.S.-China strategic competition, are reshaping the global order – and how middle powers can respond to these changes and contribute to global AI governance. The second will explore how developments in digital currencies and tokenized financial infrastructure are affecting business and society, creating new demands for cross-border regulatory coordination, and – together with AI-enabled financial innovation – reshaping global financial governance.
The conference is also sponsored by the China Institute at the University of Alberta.
