{"id":9218,"date":"2026-04-21T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/9218\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:06:09","slug":"opinion-hong-kong-can-advance-ai-beyond-the-confines-of-geopolitical-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/9218\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Hong Kong can advance AI beyond the confines of geopolitical rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a tendency to portray the global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape as consisting of two bitter rivals \u2013 <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3349947\/us-controls-chips-ai-race-china-controls-scoreboard?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China and the United States<\/a>. The remaining 80 per cent of the world\u2019s population, by virtue of their supposed dearth of scale, research and other critical overheads, are purportedly followers with no agency.The reality is more complex. The emerging global AI order is neither unipolar nor strictly bipolar. Instead, it is characterised by a swathe of middle powers hedging their options and optimising their interests against the backdrop of dominant players on either side of the Pacific. That was my primary takeaway from the inaugural <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3349871\/common-ignorance-how-china-took-lead-global-efforts-govern-ais-future?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hong Kong Global AI Governance Conference<\/a>.In the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/economics\/article\/3333690\/why-aseans-ai-ambition-may-lead-widening-economic-and-tech-divide?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/a>, Malaysia and Singapore are positioning themselves as critical hubs for data centres and semiconductor manufacturing, engaging with industry leaders in China and the US. Europe has ploughed ahead in imposing guard rails against the immensely powerful nascent technology.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Despite persisting geopolitical instability and concerns over water availability, the Persian Gulf States are well-endowed to pursue data-intensive large language models and specialisation-oriented AI applications across energy, healthcare and education. India, France, South Korea and the United Kingdom have taken on the successive mantle of convening summits on global AI cooperation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">If Hong Kong is to remain relevant in the increasingly multiplex landscape, it must serve as a nexus of responsible AI governance for the global majority.<\/p>\n<p>An obvious starting point would be Hong Kong\u2019s legal system, which enjoys international repute and connectivity thanks to its bedrock of common law. Hong Kong can serve as a premier <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/hong-kong-opinion\/article\/3312114\/hong-kongs-role-global-mediation-hub-will-bring-untold-benefits?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mediation and arbitration hub<\/a> for AI disputes, and a standard-setter of consumer rights and legal liability precedents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a tendency to portray the global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape as consisting of two bitter rivals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7942,24,2477,25,1412,7939,7940,7941,387,700,7943,132,2700,1415,1082,1038],"class_list":{"0":"post-9218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-african-union","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-alibaba","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-asean","13":"tag-asia-pacific-economic-cooperation","14":"tag-belt-and-road-initiative","15":"tag-brics","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-global-majority","19":"tag-google","20":"tag-hong-kong","21":"tag-india","22":"tag-latin-america","23":"tag-malaysia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}