Shen Yi

China's Ministry of Commerce placed 20 Japanese entities on the export control list and another 20 on a watch list on Monday. Compared with the initial lists released in February, this latest move marks a highly noteworthy change: The relevant Japanese entities, for the first time, include research institutions that provide research support for the resurrection of militarism in Japan, and the scope is no longer limited to traditional military companies, manufacturing enterprises and supply chain firms. This development indicates that China's export controls on Japan are expanding beyond the level of companies and products, and are further extending into the realms of knowledge production, technological incubation and the supporting system of civil-military integration.

The 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance will be held in Shanghai from Friday to Monday. Just prior to this, the UN convened the first session of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on July 6 and 7. As global AI governance enters the phase of institutional architecture building, the attitude of the US on this matter has become particularly intriguing.

Understanding China Daily's cartoon monkey allegory: Satire isn't identity politics

Recently, the story of a French man who spent around 1,400 yuan ($206.70) to buy a portable air conditioner in Shanghai and checked it as baggage back to Paris for his 93-year-old mother sparked widespread attention on Chinese social media.

As China's AI capabilities continue to advance, some US media outlets claimed that a "China AI blitz" is creating a "death zone" for US model makers, arguing that US companies without frontier-pushing technology or market-breaking pricing could lose their foothold amid mounting competition from Chinese models. It captures a real shift underway in the global AI industry, but cloaks it in a highly misleading label. The "death zone" is simply the middle ground of the AI business landscape, not a technological trap deliberately created by China to target US companies.

In the Chinese film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East, which is set to be released in overseas markets, one of the most moving lines is one of the simplest: "Eat well." The film places a Chinese restaurant amid conflict in the Middle East. As long as the stove can be lit in the kitchen, and children have a hot meal, normal life has not completely disappeared. For Chinese people, the saying "Food is of paramount importance to the people" has never been merely a cultural expression. At its core, it is a simple principle of governance: ensuring that people have food to eat and that ordinary families can live in security and stability.

The recently concluded G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Asheville, the US, has once again placed global trade imbalances at the forefront of the international economic agenda.

Should the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the US accelerate or slow down? A heated debate has erupted over this issue between the US government and industry figures, led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

chips, computing infrastructure, cloud computing Illustration: Chen Xia/GT

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the global economy and international power structures.