The first workable global AI safety pact should be designed for a world without trust. A few months ago, I attended a closed gathering in San Francisco with senior AI developers and safety researchers from several leading frontier labs. The message was stark: AI capabilities might soon advance faster than our ability to understand and…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has singled out China for praise for concentrating on national and economic growth, while racing to catch up with the United States. In a new interview with state media, Pezeshkian said despite increasingly developing its military capabilities, the second most populous nation doesn’t engage in wars like the U.S. ”Are China and the U.S. friends?”…
A court in eastern China has sentenced former senior official Yang Youlin to death after finding him guilty of accepting more than 2.21 billion yuan ($325 million) in bribes over a 30-year period, in one of the country’s largest corruption cases in recent years. Yang, 69, served in several positions in Nanjing between 1993…
Ray Dalio has spent 42 years visiting China, building relationships with senior officials and studying its political history back to 221 BCE. But after a recent 10-day trip to Beijing — part of a month-long tour of Asia — the Bridgewater Associates founder says something has changed, and changed fast. “Over the past few months…
China has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Mali’s development and modernisation efforts, Beijing’s Ambassador to Bamako, Li Xiang, announced during a symposium on Chinese modernisation held in the Malian capital. The diplomat praised the historic friendship and cooperation between the two countries, describing the relationship as built on mutual trust, reciprocal respect, and solidarity. He…
The U.S. government’s decision to stop Anthropic from offering its Mythos and Fable 5 models to non-U.S. nationals may end up providing a big boost to the adoption of open-source models, including those from Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. Users can download open-source models and run them on their own computers or…
Universal Music Greater China (UMGC), a division of Universal Music Group, has acquired the recorded rights to the Carrier Creative catalog of 1980s and 1990s Mandopop. The catalog includes recordings by the group Little Tigers and singer-songwriter Johnny Chiang, along with acts including Nicky Wu, Alec Su, You Huan Pai Dui, Hong Hai Er, and Girl Group. The deal was announced on Monday (June 8) at UMGC’s…
The deal to end the war in Iran will need the approval of the United Nations Security Council, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi indicated on Tuesday. At the UN headquarters in New York, Yi said: “We believe that once an agreement is reached, it will be submitted to the UN Security Council for endorsement for…
During a press conference held on Friday, May 22, 2026, the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Mali, His Excellency Mr. Li Xiang, reaffirmed China’s commitment and solidarity with Mali following the terrorist attacks of April 25. Responding to a question, the diplomat stated that China and Mali are, in his words, “good…
China has reaffirmed its commitment to the One-China principle, stating that Taiwan is not a sovereign nation but an inseparable part of Chinese territory. Counselor at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Nigeria, Dong Hairong, made this known on Thursday at a Media Salon held in Abuja by the Centre for China Studies and…
