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SCMP reports that Zheng Yongnian argued the United States and China face limits in trying to disentangle their artificial intelligence ecosystems, and that preventing AI competition from spiraling into a new cold war should be a priority.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has again linked artificial intelligence to manufacturing, but his latest Shanghai visit focused on a more practical part of the policy agenda: the shared services that can help companies use the technology.
Yahoo Finance, carrying a Stocktwits report citing The Information, says China’s Cyberspace Administration has reportedly examined DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged the companies routed exchanges through its Claude models.
The United Nations Security Council has scheduled a September 23 meeting on artificial intelligence and international security. Separately, Reuters reported that DeepSeek would be among companies briefing the Council and that Chinese firms including Moonshot had been invited to make statements.
China’s latest online-minor-protection proposal is not a blanket prohibition on artificial intelligence. It is a broader draft governing how network services interact with young users, with a specific restriction that places virtual intimate relationships inside a wider framework for identification, platform design, algorithms, and enforcement.
The next U.S.-China discussion on artificial intelligence may take place in Shenzhen in roughly two months, but the most important fact is that nothing has happened yet. The available reporting does not show that either government has implemented a functioning hotline, signed protocol, or binding safety agreement.
President Donald Trump has announced plans for an “AI Force” and a new AI adviser, adding another piece of political theater to a U.S.-China technology relationship already shaped by chips, export controls, safety talks, and industrial rivalry. The immediate significance is not that a new agency has been created. It has not.
The first reported outcome from the New York meetings between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng is modest but consequential: a channel for continued discussion about artificial intelligence.
A reported lawsuit in Zhejiang is putting an unusual form of AI reliance before a local court: a family’s use of a chatbot to choose an auspicious burial date. The case should not be treated as proof that a chatbot caused a later tragedy, or as a ruling that an AI provider is liable.
Artificial intelligence could strengthen China’s productive capacity while leaving a longstanding weakness in domestic demand unresolved, according to Huang Yiping, a Peking University professor and expert member of the People’s Bank of China Monetary Policy Committee. The significance of his warning lies in its institutional setting and its limits.
China has pushed back on calls from U.S. technology leaders to slow the advance of frontier AI, while publicly insisting that rapid development and safety governance must proceed together. The issue gained a new pre-summit frame in a September 18 Nikkei Asia report, published days before the expected Trump-Xi meeting.
Artificial intelligence has entered the immediate pre-summit conversation between Washington and Beijing, but only as a reported agenda item, not as an announced agreement. U.S.
China’s official newspaper People’s Daily published a September 16 commentary under the authoritative byline Zhong Sheng rejecting U.S. allegations related to AI-model distillation and stating that the claims lack factual and legal basis. The piece used a title translated as Politicizing Technical Issues, the Old Routine of U.S.
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee announced the city’s First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development on September 16. Covering 2026 to 2030, the plan includes 105 indicators and is intended to align with China’s 15th Five-Year Plan.
China has added a new public resource to its effort to secure trusted Chinese-language material for large-model development. The Cyberspace Administration of China announced on September 16 that the Chinese Internet Base Corpus 4.0 and two related datasets were released during National Cybersecurity Week in Jinan, Shandong, the day before.
China has released a new industry standard focused on the data that artificial-intelligence algorithms use in brain-computer-interface medical devices. The standard, YY/T 2029-2026, addresses quality requirements and evaluation methods for EEG datasets used by AI algorithms. It is scheduled to take effect on September 1, 2027.
China has published a new five-year development plan for electronic-information manufacturing that ties the country’s industrial ambitions directly to advanced computing, integrated circuits, operating systems, and AI-related hardware.
China’s National Data Administration is moving embodied-intelligence data standards higher on its policy agenda, while leaving the technical rulebook for later.
China’s AI safety agenda is moving toward a more explicit concern: advanced systems that could operate beyond effective human command. The latest signal came from State Security Minister Chen Yixin, who wrote that advanced U.S. models could threaten China’s critical information infrastructure.
China has proposed creating a BRICS AI open source community to support cooperation on large-language-model development, AI applications, and training across the expanded BRICS grouping.
