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CSET produces evidence-driven analysis in a variety of forms, from informative graphics and translations to expert testimony and published reports. Our key areas of inquiry are the foundations of artificial intelligence — such as talent, data and computational power — as well as how AI can be used in cybersecurity and other national security settings. We also do research on the policy tools that can be used to shape AI’s development and use, and on biotechnology.

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China’s Military AI Wish List

Emelia Probasco, Sam Bresnick, and Cole McFaul
| February 2026

This report examines thousands of Chinese-language open-source requests for proposal (RFPs) published by the People’s Liberation Army between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024. The RFPs the authors reviewed offer insights into the PLA’s priorities and ambitions for AI-enabled military technologies associated with C5ISRT: command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting.

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한국 AI 생태계 분석

Cole McFaul, Husanjot Chahal, Rebecca Gelles, and Margarita Konaev
| August 18, 2023

This is a Korean translation of the August 2023 CSET Data Brief "Assessing South Korea's AI Ecosystem."

Read our translation of a document that announces China’s 2023 research priorities in explainable and generalizable artificial intelligence methods. It also provides state funds for projects related to these priorities, and explains how Chinese AI researchers can apply for funding. Applications of AI in medicine, biology, physics, materials science, and mathematics are prominent among the 2023 priorities.

Read our translation of a white paper by a Chinese state-affiliated think tank that emphasizes the importance of Chinese and foreign AI frameworks.

This is a translation of China’s plan for applying high technology to the field of transportation.

Read our original translation of revised guidelines, issued by the PRC Ministry of Science and Technology in September 2020 on the basis of previous guidelines from August 2019.

Read our original translation of a significant Party and government reorganization plan that China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, passed in March 2023.

This is a Chinese translation of Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo's Feb 23, 2023 speech at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, titled “The CHIPS Act and a Long-term Vision for America’s Technological Leadership.”

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Kína külföldi technológiára irányuló kívánság listája

Ryan Fedasiuk, Emily S. Weinstein, and Anna Puglisi
| April 6, 2023

This is a Hungarian translation of the May 2021 CSET Issue Brief “China’s Foreign Technology Wish List.”

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«Список пожеланий» Китая в области иностранных технологий

Ryan Fedasiuk, Emily S. Weinstein, and Anna Puglisi
| April 6, 2023

This is a Russian translation of the May 2021 CSET Issue Brief “China’s Foreign Technology Wish List.”

Read our original translation of an article that describes China’s “National Security Academic Fund,” which supports the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China’s nuclear weapons research, development, and testing laboratory.