The EU has reportedly asked China to keep Chinese hybrid sales to around 15% of its market, raising a fundamental question about consumer choice, industrial capacity and managed trade.
Saudi Arabia has asked China to press Iran to restrain the Houthis, exposing a growing collision between Tehran’s regional leverage and the interests of its most important oil customer.
The people building the world’s most powerful AI increasingly want more time. The harder question is what governments and laboratories intend to build with it.
China can now stop citizens leaving the country where export-control or technology-rule violations are judged to threaten national industrial or technological security.
Donald Trump has rejected calls for additional AI safeguards, saying existing U.S. powers are sufficient and that AI needs a ‘strong and smart’ president.
Trump has played down a report that Chinese entities supplied Iran with satellite imagery before an attack that killed three U.S. troops, saying both countries spy on each other.
China’s state-backed Global Times has attacked Anthropic’s call to slow frontier AI as a Cold War tactic, pointing to U.S. chip controls and restrictions on Chinese labs.
China’s intelligence service is warning that AI poses national-security threats through deepfakes, automated propaganda, data leakage and foreign influence.
A government-backed candidate has won Okinawa’s gubernatorial election with 59%, potentially giving Tokyo a freer hand for military expansion near Taiwan and China.
China’s official AI-safety framework is preparing for systems that could self-replicate, seek power and potentially break loose from human control.
