As tariffs rise, trade restrictions multiply and geopolitical tensions weigh on global economic ties, the case for keeping markets open has become increasingly urgent.

At the recent EICMA motorcycle show in Milan, Italy, the crowd around the CFMOTO booth was so thick that you could barely move. Expo visitors' enthusiasm reflects a broader reality. In 2025, China became the EU's second-largest motorcycle supplier, accounting for 27.1 percent of imports and roughly

"AI doesn't scale in laboratories. It scales on the shop floor." Siemens is positioning China as a real-world test bed for industrial AI, moving beyond treating the country as a sales market to leveraging its end-to-end industrial value chain.

Zhejiang province and Senegal have inked an action plan to cooperate on standardization, the first such plan between the province and a Belt and Road partner country.

Just as with electric cars, Chinese motorcycle brands are roaring into European markets, with high-performance, cut‑price models starting to make a name for themselves.

Japan bought a record 7.98 trillion yen (about 50.4 billion US dollars) on July 30 to prop up its currency in the foreign exchange market, marking the largest single-day yen-buying intervention on record, data released Monday by the Finance Ministry showed. The July 30 intervention was part of a