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ChinAI #374: China's first AI-generated long-form TV series
Jeff Ding's ChinAI newsletter examines The Later Journey to the West, the first fully AI-generated long-form TV series to air in mainstream prime time on Chinese provincial satellite TV, and what its production reveals about generative AI's limits and commercial prospects.
10/06/26 - If a woman often talks about how happy she is, she probably has an awful marriage
“Went for a walk tonight with my boyfriend.
China bolsters construction of national computing network
China is accelerating the build-out of a nationwide computing power network, folding it into the national 'six networks' infrastructure framework as a centrepiece of the 15th Five-Year Plan, with a combined intelligent computing capacity of 2,185 exaflops as of June.
DeepSeek and Moonshot invited to address UN Security Council on AI risks
Chinese AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot have been invited to speak at a UN Security Council briefing on AI and international security, alongside OpenAI's Sam Altman and representatives of Anthropic, in a session that thrusts Chinese model builders into the centre of the global AI governance debate.
115th National Day Celebration of Republic Of China (Taiwan), organised by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC), Chennai
The Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) attended the 115th National Day celebration of the Republic of China (Taiwan) held at The Leela Palace, Chennai. The grand event was organised by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC), Chennai. The occasion brought together well-wishers, institutional partners, and friends of the TECC, marking a significant gathering of diplomatic, academic, and socio-political figures. The event was notably attended by several Members of Parliament from Tamil
Webull’s China Ties Pose National Security Risk, Congress Finds
A bipartisan congressional committee has revealed that trading platform Webull is closely linked to the Chinese government, raising concerns about
Poland’s President in the Philippines: Black Hawks, ASEAN, and US Defense Interests
Could Nawrocki’s visit to Manila serve to promote further Black Hawk sales across ASEAN, potentially benefiting U.S. industrial interests?
The Daily Roundup
October 7th, 2026 | Welcome to The Wire’s daily news roundup. Each day, our staff gathers the top China business, finance, and economics headlines from a selection of the world’s leading news organizations.
China stockpiles ASML lithography tools, spurring US calls for complete export ban
A Washington think tank estimates that Chinese-owned fabs had acquired some 343 immersion DUV lithography systems by early 2026, prompting former US officials to press for a total Western blockade on such tool exports to China.
Chinese researchers extend future memory endurance 100-fold in semiconductor advance
Chinese researchers have demonstrated a 100-fold improvement in the endurance of wurtzite ferroelectric memory, achieving more than 10 billion write cycles by restricting nitrogen-vacancy movement. The advance, published in Science, could help overcome reliability barriers for next-generation memory in high-performance computing and AI.
Why the Mecca Agreement Might Fail
If each member preserves its own partnerships while expecting the others to absorb its security risks, what does the promise that an attack against one is an attack against all mean when a crisis arrives?
HK judges and judicial officers set for 2% pay rise following last year’s freeze
Judges and judicial officers have been recommended to receive a 2 per cent salary increase for this financial year, following a pay freeze last year due to the city’s mounting deficit. The salary increase follows an annual review of the salaries of judges and judicial officers, which refers to magistrates, coroners, court registrars and roles
State-Linked Yuyuantantian Signals Beijing’s Possible Approach to Breaking the China-EU Trade Deadlock
Today, Yuyuantantian published a commentary on China-EU relations.
As Tide Turns Against Modi, More Parties Back INDIA Bloc Protests
Police detained scores of opposition lawmakers, who held a sit-in to press their demand for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Supporting AI Must Move Beyond Crude, Scattergun Competition
An Economic Daily commentary argues that local governments are turning AI industrial policy into a subsidy race — with near-identical support schemes, low disbursement rates and duplicated projects — and calls instead for tiered, locally tailored policies, inter-regional coordination and patient ecosystem-building.
Cultivating a High-Quality 'AI + Transportation' Ecosystem
A commentary from Economic Daily argues that China's 'AI + Transportation' push has moved from top-level design to implementation, showcasing concrete gains in ports, railways and postal logistics — but warns that chip, sensor and data-barrier bottlenecks still require systematic, forward-looking remedies.
National Corpus Innovation Ecosystem Alliance Launched to Build a Shared Base for Scientific AI
A nationwide Corpus Innovation Ecosystem Alliance, initiated by the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and backed by 50 founding member institutions, was launched in Beijing alongside 42 new scientific corpus standards, a corpus community platform and a new English-language journal.
Join Us: How Nations Succeed — The China Case Study
David Blair launches his new book at CCG on October 13, followed by a discussion on the forces behind China’s economic transformation.
AI Plus Research Speeds Up Again: Panshi Research Intelligence Ecosystem 1.0 Officially Launched
The Computer Network Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has formally released Panshi·OneScience, the core platform of its Panshi research intelligence ecosystem 1.0, alongside the 'Xinhuo' (Passing the Torch) co-building initiative, which nearly 100 research institutes, universities and science and technology firms have already joined.
China's science association unveils two flagship AI achievements
The China Association for Science and Technology has put two representative AI advances on stage at its 'New Tiangong Kaiwu' showcase: the 'Lizhi' Uni-MoE multimodal model from Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) and the 'Caihua · MatVerse' materials foundation model from Suzhou Laboratory.
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