Russia and China sign communiqué pledging AI governance cooperation
At the 31st Russia-China heads-of-government meeting in St Petersburg on October 21, 2026, Mikhail Mishustin and Li Qiang signed a joint communiqué naming AI a frontier cooperation area alongside biotechnology and the digital economy. The sides agreed to exchange experience on AI regulation on the basis of state sovereignty and to cooperate on normative and legal frameworks for AI, according to the Russian government and the Chinese embassy readout.
Why it matters
It aligns Russian AI policy with Beijing's just as Moscow's sovereign-model law moves into subordinate-legislation phase.
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李强同俄罗斯总理米舒斯京共同主持中俄总理第三十一次定期会晤