Treaty Enforcement in China
Jack Stennett · Team JackAI
Submitted to Red Teaming A Narrow Path: ControlAI Policy Sprint. Sprint projects are early-stage work by participants, not Apart Research publications.
This report red-teams A Narrow Path’s international treaty proposal by stress-testing its assumptions in the Chinese context. It identifies key failure modes—regulatory capture, compute-based loopholes, and covert circumvention—and proposes adjustments to improve enforceability under real-world political conditions.
Reviews
This was a very interesting paper. Identified a number of issues, and proposed solutions that seem to make sense.
Overall this is one of the best submissions I reviewed. The specific, granular, fact-grounded perspectives on Chinese politics and regulation were extremely thoughtful. Probably some of this could be mitigated -- for example, I'm not sure that Chinese regulators being actually independent versus just expected to do well by their political leadership is a true crux -- but overall very thoughtful!
Cite this project
@misc{stennett2025treaty,
title = {{Treaty Enforcement in China}},
author = {Jack Stennett},
year = {2025},
month = jun,
note = {Submitted to Red Teaming A Narrow Path: ControlAI Policy Sprint, an Apart Research Sprint},
howpublished = {\url{https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/red-teaming-a-narrow-path-treaty-enforcement-in-china-vb6b}},
url = {https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/red-teaming-a-narrow-path-treaty-enforcement-in-china-vb6b}
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