Head: Beijing’s WAICO could determine new global AI order. India must be vigilant

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Advertisement Add this year’s Tianjin Initiative on Global Governance and the pattern is clear. Every forum is a launchpad for a new Chinese frame. WAICO is the algorithmic expression of that ambition. The tone is global, but the design is Chinese. Diplomacy, like software, has layers of code. The structure is formally multilateral, yet functionally China-centric. The proposed headquarters is Shanghai. Geography is not neutral. When finance was globalised and trade liberalised, the West wrote the rules at Bretton Woods and housed the referees in Geneva. Now, Beijing seeks both the rulebook and the referee under its roof. Scepticism shouldn’t…