China

The number that matters is 9.32. That is how long it took Honor's two-legged robot Lightning to cover 100 metres at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, reaching a peak speed of 14.5 metres per second across a preparatory trial run.

Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Jeffrey I. Kessler put a number on the gap between what both governments have officially permitted and what has actually moved.

The label is "nature reserve". The practical effect, Washington says, would be to lock Filipino fishermen off waters their families have worked for generations.

Watch the new-orders line and you know where China's factories are heading before output figures arrive. In July 2026, that line dropped to 48.5, the weakest new-orders reading since 2023, and the headline manufacturing PMI followed it down to 49.2, the first sub-50 reading in five months.

The attacker's first move was almost invisible: a single message sent over Telegram. What followed was entirely machine-driven.

Moonshot AI is calling its new Kimi K3 the world's first open 3T-class model.

China's median global favourability reached 46% in 2026, up from 38% in 2025, while the United States fell to 36% from 48% over the same period. Pew Research Center documented the shift across 36 countries and more than 42,000 respondents, with fieldwork running between 8 February and 13 May 2026.

China's exports rose 27.0% year on year in June 2026 in US dollar terms, blowing past forecasts and marking the fastest monthly expansion in years.