China's government ministry that conducts foreign policy and diplomacy, issuing official statements on international affairs.
China has sanctioned Belize's foreign minister and Paraguay's ICT minister after both attended a Taipei event celebrating Taiwan's National Day. Belize's prime minister, John Briceno, said the measures will not change his country's relations with Taiwan.
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US and China agreed at a three-day Washington summit to create an AI incident channel without publishing what counts as an incident or how one is reported. The one follow-up on the calendar, a separate dialogue due by November, sets no deadline for making the channel work.
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Dario Amodei made global pacing conditional on democracies keeping as large a lead as possible over China, and the officials and analysts who answered him in Beijing objected to the terms. Beijing rejected those terms in public.
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OpenAI and Anthropic want Washington and Beijing to negotiate a pace for frontier AI development. Trump's answer arrived on Truth Social on Sept. 14, and China's Foreign Ministry called the U.S. debate fear-mongering the same day.
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Anthropic's CEO asked labs and governments to slow capability gains so safety work can catch up. Beijing called that fearmongering and a Cold War playbook. Trump said the US is ahead and whoever wins AI wins.
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A letter to roughly 35 signatories of a US-led AI pact bars them from Chinese-backed frameworks. Beijing's reply is digital sovereignty, which leaves vendors holding the lock-in question.
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