Satellite images reveal how China is building replicas to hone its weapons. Their targets: F-35 stealth fighters, US warships, and Taiwan's capital.

T he help China gives Russia in the war in Ukraine has long caused dismay in Western countries. Exports of ostensibly civilian components such as engines and electronics end up in

It marks the first time in the roughly 20 years it has been tracking global opinions that China has been viewed more positively than the U.S., the Pew Research Center said.

China's global image is on the rise as America's sours, according to a Pew survey of more than 40,000 people around the globe.

In a speech last week, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, described so-called open-source A.I. as key to China’s ambitions to shape the global development of the technology. Mr. Xi hailed open-sourcing, in which much of the software can be freely shared and modified, as a “rare and historical opportunity” to spread the technology’s benefits worldwide.

China’s new Kimi bot has raised concerns that AI systems with the blessing of Beijing could undercut Western AI companies. A million “tokens” to run its most powerful AI cost around $15, compared to $50 for Anthropic’s most powerful technology. Much of the technology behind Kimi is open-source, meaning it can be freely downloaded and modified.

The Chinese Communist Party is not just trying to plant a flag on the frontier of AI, where companies such as DeepSeek, Moonshot and Alibaba are making the running. It also wants to embed AI into all its industries and businesses and to dominate global supply chains. And it wants to do this entirely off its own bat.

HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) - Rescuers were searching on Sunday for 23 people missing after a Vietnamese ship sank in the busy waterway of the South China Sea, while 39 were pulled from the waters, China's state broadcaster CCTV said.