Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

Asked about the CrowdStrike report, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters on October 8 that she was not familiar with it.

China opposes hacking activities and fights these activities in accordance with the law, Mao said, according to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mao added that China rejects the spread of disinformation driven by a political agenda.

She said AI has a significant impact on cybersecurity and that the international community needs to step up cooperation and dialogue.

Sorry, inside China from recognizing or enforcing or complying with US sanctions that target five Chinese petrochemical companies.

Um, we also even saw in the lead-up to this most recent Trump-Xi meeting, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs opposing what they called illegal US sanctions on Iranian airlines.

And, and Mona, defer to you on how, how effective, um, US sanctions are on, uh, Iranian airlines.

But one statistic I thought I saw was it so far has only impacted...

But as Ashish Valentine reports from Taipei, Taiwan is emphasizing its right to self-determination.

Following the full day of meetings between Xi and President Trump, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released their readout of Xi Jinping's remarks.

Xi reportedly expressed hope that the U.S. would oppose Taiwan independence and handle the Taiwan issue prudently.

Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Xi's remarks in a statement, saying Taiwan's future can only be decided through democratic means.

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te said in a speech last week that faced with the escalating threat from China, his responsibility is to ensure Taiwan is better prepared.

Part of that agenda, he said, is raising defense spending to five percent of GDP by 2030.

And while Economic D-Day was not even close to Economic D-Day, these aviation sectoral sanctions and targeted designations are actually decently significant.

And while China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs have made very clear, and we actually saw a flight land today in China, that they are not going to abide.

We have seen several countries cut flights, and that is added pressure on the Iranian economy.

Yeah.

Chen called for more party control over AI and stricter government oversight.

This, he said, was necessary to protect political stability at home, to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns from hostile forces, and to compete militarily with countries like the United States." Henry Gao, a law professor at Singapore Management University, said, "Beijing is going into these talks viewing AI safety not as a shared humanitarian mission, but through an adversarial lens." He added that the government is making it clear that, quote, "Data sovereignty and political security will never be traded away for international safety accords." Last Monday, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs made their position on an AI slowdown abundantly clear.

He said, "The development of artificial intelligence concerns the common well-being of all humanity.

All parties should jointly promote an open, inclusive, universally beneficial, and ethically sound approach to AI.

In 2024, American intelligence agencies had raised concerns that Russia could be planning to put a nuclear weapon in space, a threat that could disrupt satellite networks that are vital to everything from communications to military operations.

In response to Meng's announcement, spokespeople from the Kremlin and the Chinese Foreign Ministry made statements opposing what they called America's weaponization of space.

Walter, news or faux news?

Well, certainly faux news that Russia and China oppose America's weaponization of space.

Donald Trump said he was strongly opposed and called fears of AI destroying humanity, and I quote, a hoax.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called it fear-mongering.

China's official mouthpiece, which is the Global Times, called it something out of the Cold War playbook targeting China.

Sam Altman, who's the CEO of OpenAI, endorsed it, saying, I agree with Dario and we need to pace the frontier.