[New] Beijing is likely weighing its next steps carefully, balancing promoting corporate global expansion versus sending a warning to homegrown AI companies that might follow Manus' Singapore-washing playbook.
U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC and SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION
[New] The temporary diplomatic detente between Washington and Beijing has provided partial, time-limited relief, without resolving Europe's underlying vulnerability.
GlobeNewswire
[New] If US-China rivalry continues to intensify, Southeast Asian countries will have stronger incentives to deepen security cooperation beyond both Washington and Beijing.
East Asia Forum
[New] The central axis of global politics runs through Beijing and Washington, with Moscow as a disruptive secondary partner and Europe mostly offstage.
Arcano Global Research
[New] In recent years, Beijing has launched a revolution in green energy from the sun and wind whose accelerating pace, driven by its sheer economic efficiency, has the potential to transform much of the global economy, while simultaneously making China the world's preeminent economic power.
Mano Singham
[New] Enhanced bilateral agreements in the military and security sphere are reinforced by the fact that Moscow and Beijing share similar threat perceptions.
CEPA
[New] The long-overdue property tax reform is the clearest example, as imposing one while home prices are still falling would intensify negative wealth effects and risk accelerating the very price declines Beijing is trying to arrest.
Asia Society
[New] At the same time Canada, Mexico, and other trading partners negotiating bilateral agreements with the United States will watch closely for signs that Washington is softening its stance toward Beijing.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Control over the technologies and supply chains that will define the 21st-century economy - from battery minerals to advanced chips to AI platforms - is understood in Beijing as a prerequisite for geopolitical dominance.
China Leadership
Without structural reform - which Beijing shows no appetite to undertake - the dual economy's internal contradictions will continue to compound. / China
China Leadership
Chichester warned of the growing use of cyber as a tool for overt and covert statecraft - ranging from the kind of hybrid warfare Russia is waging in Ukraine, to the transnational repression Beijing turns on certain parts of its diaspora.
Infosecurity Magazine
China remains the most distrusted: A massive 62.5% express distrust in Beijing, driven overwhelmingly by fears that its military and economic weight will be used to coerce smaller nations.
The Southeast Asia Desk
China's second project, the BEST reactor, is expected to go further - generating actual electricity from fusion for the first time in history, giving Beijing a potential two-step lead over U.S. private competitors.
Electricity Info
Operated by the Institute of Plasma Physics, Beijing expects its reactor to record its first fusion ignition experiment in 2027, a milestone that would make EAST the world's first self-sustained reactor, in which plasma can burn without external heating sources.
BGR
Beijing has doubled its EV charging capacity target to 180 gigawatts by 2027 and made energy storage attachment mandatory for new renewable installations - creating a policy-guaranteed demand floor that operates independently of consumer EV adoption rates.
A Whisky with Charles
For Beijing, the Arctic is simultaneously an energy security opportunity, a logistics revolution, and a great-power status statement.
Energy Central
The main impact for tourists is that bringing drones into Beijing will no longer be allowed.
China Drone Registration
All outdoor drone flights in Beijing will require prior approval.
ABJ Drone Academy
Bringing new drones or components into Beijing will be prohibited, with an exception only for verified owners carrying already-registered equipment.
The Times Of India
Bringing new drones or restricted parts into Beijing will be tightly controlled.
DroneDJ
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has officially added Alibaba Group to its list of Chinese military companies, a designation that is escalating tensions between D.C. and Beijing and raising fresh questions about the future risks facing Chinese tech giants listed in the U.S.
Yahoo Finance
Last updated: 08 July 2026
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