Alternative Ethics: PRC’s MIIT Publishes Rules for Secure AI Governance

The formation of China's sovereign loop is completed at the compliance level. The third powerful news item on July 17, 2026, from the WAIC conference was the publication of the Action Plan on International AI Ethics Governance by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

While the UN unsuccessfully tries to create global control institutions, and Washington dictates rules through cartel agreements with OpenAI, China is formalizing its own concept of safe AI. This means that a single global regulatory standard no longer exists. B2B integrators and model developers will now have to navigate between Western and Asian requirements for censorship, algorithm interpretability, and data protection. The MIIT document cements the rules of the game for the entire Asia-Pacific region, turning ethics into an instrument of technological influence.

Source: MIIT / Xinhua / Reuters