A standard U.S. investigation playbook doesn’t travel cleanly into China. Data ownership, cross-border transfer, and employment law all work differently there. The message from investigators on the ground: run it the way headquarters runs everywhere else, and the investigation itself becomes the liability.
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China’s chemical compliance rules reach deeper into manufacturers’ supply chains
China’s chemical compliance landscape is moving into a broader phase. For companies that manufacture, import, distribute, or use chemicals in China, compliance is increasingly about more than substance registration, as recent developments tie registration to hazardous-chemical operations and supply-chain responsibility.
Posted inAsia
China’s draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law adds compliance burden on foreign companies
China’s draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law seeks to prevent and punish cross-border corruption, cracking down on corruption conducted across borders, both domestic companies bribing foreign officials and foreign companies bribing officials in China.
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China’s “Mythos moment” is coming. Its release gate is already built.
China’s “Mythos moment” is coming. Its release gate is already built. Washington spent June 2026 governing Mythos-level models for the first time: Systems whose autonomous cyber and agentic capabilities register as national security consequences. The label borrows from Anthropic’s Mythos 5, restricted that month; the government’s attention also reached OpenAI’s GPT-5.6. No Chinese lab has […]
Posted inData Privacy
China’s data scrutiny puts financial firms’ day-to-day compliance to the test
China is tightening personal information protections and urging businesses that handle personal data to strengthen compliance. Violations could result in million-dollar fines, depending on the case.
Posted inArtificial Intelligence
Compliance is not your AI bottleneck. Your operating model is.
The next phase of AI regulation will not wait for the Executive Branch, Congress, or the lawyer at the end of the release cycle. Compliance evidence has to be assembled while the system assembles, or it will not assemble fast enough.