The institutional logic here is straightforward: governance frameworks are written by whoever shows up consistently. China's Permanent Representative to the UN delivered remarks on April 10 explicitly naming the UN as the primary channel for AI oversight — not a bilateral forum, not a regional bloc, the UN. That choice of venue is the argument. By anchoring its position there, Beijing claims the mantle of multilateralism that Washington held during the Biden years and has since abandoned. The Trump administration's pivot to self-regulation did not create a neutral space —…