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Taiwan's Minister of Labor, Hung Sun-han, returned to Taiwan after visiting mainland China, stating that the Chinese side provided equal treatment, but admitting that he felt more relaxed upon returning to Taiwan.

Foreign Policy points out that China's open-source AI models are being spontaneously adopted by Global South developers due to low cost, easy deployment, and strong support for non-Latin scripts, potentially forming a structural dependency.

Saudi Arabia withdrew in 2025 from the China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, which was previously seen as an important attempt to promote de-dollarization in oil trade.

Chinese writer Lian Yue posts insults against Singapore, attacks Lianhe Zaobao reports and calls Singapore a base country, drawing public attention.

On September 17, the EU demanded that China voluntarily restrict its exports of hybrid electric vehicles to Europe and set a 15% market share target to prevent the loss of European industry.

The European Parliament passed a resolution calling on the EU to impose sanctions on officials involved in suppressing Hong Kong's freedoms, based on the global human rights sanctions mechanism.

Burmese scholar Myo Nyunt was arrested in Kunming, and his wife has appealed to Trump to secure his release during his meeting with Xi Jinping.

Reuters reported that at Saudi Arabia's request, China privately urged Iran to restrain the Houthis to protect the security of Red Sea energy shipping routes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in an interview that he regrets China has not remained neutral in the Russia-Ukraine war, and that Chinese-made components exist in Russian military weapons.

On September 18, a public vessel of the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries was rammed and damaged by a Chinese coast guard ship while on duty in the waters off Palawan, with both sides blaming each other for violations.