How China is edging toward a robotic surgery hub2026-07-02
When Professor Prokar Dasgupta operated in London on a 62-year-old prostate-cancer patient from Gibraltar earlier this year, the distance drew the headlines: about 1,500 miles between a surgeon at a console in Britain and a robotic system moving inside an operating room in Gibraltar, at the southern edge of the Iberian Peninsula. The robot was Chinese-made — Toumai, developed by Shanghai MicroPort MedBot.
MWC Shanghai 2026 Reveals China's AI Infrastructure Lead2026-06-29
The number that should command attention this week is not a geopolitical headline. It is 140 trillion. That is the daily AI token consumption across China as of March 2026, up from roughly 100 billion in early 2024, a thousandfold increase in two years, according to Liu Liehong, head of the National Data Administration. MWC Shanghai 2026, which closed on June 26, served as the stage for announcing what comes next.
China's Poverty Alleviation Offers a 'Systematic Blueprint' for Pakistan: Expert2026-06-24
As Pakistan grapples with a poverty rate affecting approximately a quarter of its population, a Pakistani scholar based in China said Beijing's success in lifting more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty offers a practical and scalable roadmap for his home country, provided that the model is adapted to local conditions.
ICBC President Liu Jun at Summer Davos: Pakistan Case Demonstrates New Financing Approach for Belt and Road2026-06-24
At the 2026 Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum (Summer Davos), in the panel discussion “How Will the Belt and Road Develop in the Future?”, Liu Jun, President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), outlined a set of pragmatic financing mechanisms aimed at restructuring cross-border infrastructure finance under the Belt and Road Initiative, with a particular emphasis on expanding the use of RMB-denominated funding channels and China-linked financial infrastructure.
