Xi Calls MBS as Beijing Ends Hormuz Silence on the Clock
Beijing's three-day silence broke Monday with a Xi-MBS call for 'normal passage' and MOFA language naming the Touska a 'forced interception.'
David Chen
Bureau: Beijing
Moonshot Open-Sources Kimi K2.6 Into Anthropic's Rate-Limit Week
Moonshot open-sourced a trillion-parameter Chinese frontier model Monday that tops GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on the hardest agentic benchmark, straight into Anthropic's rate-limit week.
Tesla Reclaims the Quarterly BEV Crown as BYD's Pure-EV Sales Drop Twenty-Five Percent
Tesla's 358,023 Q1 deliveries edged BYD's 310,389 pure-EV units on a 25% BYD drop; in China Tesla slipped to fourth place with 6.6% share while BYD's overseas shipments jumped 65% year over year.
Orient Securities Files to Buy Shanghai Securities Whole and Vaults Into China's Top Ten
Orient filed Sunday to acquire 100% of Shanghai Securities for combined assets above ¥600B (US$85-88B), halting trading Monday for up to 10 sessions.