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

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.

“Health is kind of the new wealth in China,” said one athletic apparel executive.

Li Jibing has penned over 5,000 poems between orders, drawing inspiration from the experience of China's blue-collar workers.

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.

To mark the seventh edition of International Sports Week, the sport's governing body gathered people's views and, for this feature, the body travelled to Asia to analyse the rise of handball in the Eastern giant.