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China has opposed the ‘smearing of its nuclear policy’ while insisting Beijing would not ‘engage in any nuclear arms race’
The US has accused China of dramatically expanding its nuclear arsenal, while doubling down on claims that Beijing had conducted secret nuclear tests.
Washington said the – the last treaty between top nuclear powers the US and Russia – earlier this month presented the possibility of striking a “better agreement” that included Beijing.

Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot
US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Monday it had uncovered campaigns by three Chinese AI firms to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what it described as industrial-scale intellectual property theft. OpenAI leveled similar charges last month.
Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax used a technique known as “distillation” – using outputs from a more powerful AI system to rapidly boost the performance of a less capable one.

Newly converted Chinamaxxers are obsessing over daily habits that are as second-nature to many Chinese people as brushing their teeth.

The German chancellor will travel to Beijing this week, the latest high-level visitor as Western countries pivot back to China.

President Trump said his planned meeting with President Xi Jinping would be a grand display, but tensions over trade and defense could dampen the mood.

Friedrich Merz to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing, with goods worth €251bn traded between two countries in 2025
China has overtaken the US as Germany’s top trading partner, figures have shown, as the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, prepares for his first visit to Beijing since taking office.
Merz will head to China on Tuesday and will be welcomed with military honours on Wednesday in Beijing by the prime minister, Li Qiang, before later meeting the president, Xi Jinping, for talks over dinner, his spokesperson Sebastian Hille said.

A Russian driver also died when their mini-bus plunged under the ice to the bottom of the lake in Siberia.

Get to know the family behind Eileen Gu's America-Chinese citizenship.

Iran has shown how plausible blackouts now are, with far-reaching consequences for the internet as we know it
During the height of Iran’s blackout in January, people could still access a platform that, in some senses, was like the internet.
Iranians could message family members on a government-monitored app and watch clips of Manchester United on a Farsi-language video-sharing site. They could read state news and use a local navigation service.

Chinese American athletes Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu face contrasting views over Olympic loyalties as Liu represents Team USA and Gu competes for China.

From earthquake warnings to bear attack alerts, Beijing is deploying a campaign of exaggeration and disinformation to punish Tokyo’s support for Taiwan.

Purdue says no ban on Chinese students exists, but reportedly rescinded dozens of offers after warnings from legislators
Several have scrapped partnerships with Chinese institutions in recent months as a direct result of pressure from US legislators. But no university appears to have gone as far as Purdue University in .
Students and faculty at the public university say that an unofficial policy is in effect to automatically reject students from and a number of other countries altogether.