China and North Korea will open the 3,026-meter New Yalu River Bridge at a joint ceremony on the 15th, 12 years after it was finished, Xinhua reported. Trade was already rising before the new capacity opened, so the coming data will show whether the old crossing was the constraint.
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China's discipline commission is investigating Huang Qifan, Chongqing's mayor until 2016, after three senior officials drew 12 to 14 years in five days. The verdict pace is triple September's, but verdicts close older cases and one month is a thin baseline.
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China and North Korea will open the four-lane New Yalu River Bridge on Thursday, Xinhua reported, more than a decade after China built its side. A South Korean analyst expects only gradual gains on a route whose existing bridge handles more than 70% of official trade.
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Lai casts Taiwan's record NT$1.12 trillion defence budget as deterrence against Beijing
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te used his National Day speech to reject subordination to Beijing and defend a record NT$1.12 trillion defence budget. Beijing answered with a written statement that restates terms for talks Lai's party does not accept.
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The lunar ice prospector was days from lifting off at Wenchang when Beijing said launch conditions were not met and the year's window was gone.
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Nanjing's LightTok chip produces AI tokens inside the sensor pixel
The LightTok chip senses, stores and computes in the same pixel, and its authors report 87.3% recognition accuracy with a tenfold energy gain on turning light into tokens across an array of 1,024 pixels.
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Scott Bessent named the proposal on Sunday, four days before Trump meets Xi at the White House. On the record, its one stated boundary is AI incidents that could affect national security.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put a mutual AI incident notification channel to Chinese officials in Manhattan on Sunday. Beijing has not said yes, and the record's only route to frontier labs is a request that they share threat information.
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Sunday's talks in New York put an AI dialogue next to the tariff agenda before Thursday's White House summit. The concrete piece Treasury described is a channel for flagging national security AI incidents, plus a promise to meet again.
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China's top court hangs AI deepfake liability on the subject's consent
The Supreme People's Court says an AI double made or shared without the subject's agreement is an infringement, and providers share the liability once they have been notified. Likeness clearance becomes a budget line, not a lawsuit.
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Hohhot pairs 186bn yuan of green compute with a till for selling tokens abroad
Twelve Inner Mongolian projects worth 186.46bn yuan were signed alongside a free trade zone platform whose stated jobs include token metering and cross-border settlement.
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Hangzhou put 15 robot traffic police on the street with the enforcement removed on purpose
The West Lake humanoids do perception, guidance and voice, then hand every infraction to a human officer. The scope cut is the most transferable part of the deployment.
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Eight months after a failed engine reignition destroyed its first attempt, LandSpace landed Zhuque-3's stainless-steel first stage in Gansu. The fix cycle is the story, not the milestone.
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