National Security Threat: China Urgently Imposes Strict Regulation on AI Agents

China is synchronizing its regulatory policy with the West. On May 15, 2026, Beijing officially announced the accelerated implementation of a regulatory framework to control autonomous AI agents (Agentic AI).

Strikingly, the concerns of the PRC State Council (SCIO) echo word for word the recent warnings from the Western intelligence alliance "Five Eyes" (from May 2). The ability of algorithms to independently write code, route data, and find vulnerabilities has been recognized as a national security threat on both sides of the geopolitical barricades. The new rules in China will require corporations to strictly verify agents before deploying them in public systems. The industry is receiving an unequivocal signal: the era of "wild" deployment of autonomous scripts is over, and compliance is becoming the primary requirement for developers worldwide.

Source: Xinhua / SCIO