Next stop, Asia!!✈️ Absolutely over the moon to begin a new role with CNN as an international correspondent, starting next week. If you’re in the region, let’s talk. Here to help, excited to elevate voices and stories that need to be heard around the world🌏

Trump on Xi: “He looks strong, vibrant and fit”

🚨NEW — Federal Judge Timothy Kelly has reinstated CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House after they were banned from the premises by President Donald Trump. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly has ordered the Trump administration to restore CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House after they were banned from the premises by President Donald Trump. cnn.com/2026/09/24/politics/…

What are China’s biggest concerns about AI? A new article by Chen Yixin, China’s Minister of State Security, in the latest issue of China Cybersecurity Magazine offers some revealing clues. Chen identifies six major risks: 1. Regime security. Hostile forces and people with ulterior motives can use deepfakes, AI-generated text and images, and automated online accounts to cheaply and massively produce political rumors, spread harmful information, and incite social divisions—waging “public-opinion wars” and “cognitive warfare” against China and directly threatening its political, institutional, and ideological security. 2. Critical infrastructure. AI can enable countries and organizations to rapidly discover vulnerabilities, automatically chain together attack paths, and carry out sophisticated hacking operations, dramatically lowering the technical barriers and costs of cyberattacks against China’s critical information infrastructure. 3. Data leakage. Foreign intelligence agencies can use AI-powered web crawlers, data mining, and profiling to collect sensitive information, including critical national data, trade secrets, and citizens’ personal information. Chinese users who process sensitive information through foreign AI products or export data abroad could also cause large-scale data leaks. 4. Closed technological ecosystems. Countries with advantages in AI theory, model architecture, and computing power may invoke “national security” to impose technology controls, entity lists, monopolize technical standards, and build closed-source ecosystems, restricting other countries’ access to advanced technologies and fragmenting global AI supply chains. 5. Structural challenges to social governance. AI creates new uncertainties for social governance and public order. Algorithmic “black boxes” and data poisoning can amplify existing social biases; misuse of personal information can trigger crises of public trust; automated decision-making creates difficult questions of accountability; and the rapid development of AI is increasingly outpacing existing laws, ethics, and regulatory mechanisms. 6. A fundamental transformation of warfare. AI is pushing warfare into an era of “intelligentization.” Whoever can use algorithms to achieve more precise sensing, judgment, and targeting will gain the initiative on the battlefield. AI is moving from an auxiliary role to a central one in intelligence fusion, decision support, target identification, combat operations, and cognitive warfare. And what is the solution? Chen’s answer is revealing: strengthen “Party control over the internet” and “Party control over data,” and “transform the advantages of Party leadership into the effectiveness of AI governance.” In other words, from the CCP’s perspective, the central question is not simply AI versus no AI. Nor is it even fundamentally a contest between the US and China. It is a contest between the US and the CCP over who gets to control AI, data, information, and ultimately the future of society. And whoever wins that contest will decide the future of humanity. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jsc97cKVY…

Happy to have contributed to this @CNN story by @ValerioCNN about the growing sophistication and automation of China's factories. The combined pace and scale of technological progress in China's manufacturing ecosystem are without precedent in human history. Link in replies.

During their rescue operation in Gyirong, Xizang, the rescuers found this little bunny and gently placed it on the rocks before returning to their work. We have not given up. Praying for miracles. 🙏

我制作了一个对比泥石流前后的视频，黄色线为地平线。 我想象的山崩，不应该沿途在地面盖上厚厚的石块泥沙吗？这样这些建筑大楼的残骸应该是埋在泥沙之下（虽然躲在里面的人都会窒息死亡） 但是对比这个视频，似乎地平线并没有明显抬高？ 可是这么大的泥沙量都去哪里了呢？ 还是说这是由于拍摄的镜头焦距不同导致的视觉误差？

“It’s catastrophic,” Chris Miller of @WCKitchen said about what he’s seeing on the ground in Kathmandu, Nepal. “Whole towns are gone,” Miller said. He describes to @Elex_Michaelson relief efforts his team is working on.

"Is anybody here? Is anybody here?" Chinese first rescue team is searching the core disaster area of the Gyirong Port. The whole area is buried under the mud. Rescuers knock and call out, trying to find anyone who may still be alive. Be careful and stay safe🙏

📢 NEPAL UPDATE In Bidur, the capital of Nuwakot District in Nepal, WCK restaurant partner Nepalaya Rooftop Restaurant served samosas and vegetable momos, along with fresh fruit and water, to evacuees and search and rescue teams working around the clock following this week's flash flooding. Entire towns in the region have been wiped out, and our teams are mobilizing across the area to reach impacted communities as quickly as possible. #ChefsForNepal

RT @shen_shiwei: RIP. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🙏🙏🙏 Now we the hero's name is Huang Peng (黄棚). Born in 1991, has been working at China's Gyirong Port for 13 ye…

The Nepali army has released video showing rescuers saving several people from the tunnel of a hydro power plant in Rasuwa. The footage shows survivors crawling through thick mud to reach rescuers. Follow live updates: cnn.it/4gAmFPD

The images from the China-Nepal border are heartbreaking. My deepest sympathies to all those affected by this tragedy. We are actively coordinating on local rescue efforts and providing consular support to affected American citizens and families.

Stay strong, Xizang! After a horrific mudslide in Nepal struck China’s border port of Gyirong, PLA soldiers and rescuers are going all out to save lives. Praying for everyone there! 🙏

I thank Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his congratulations to Ukraine on our most important national holiday. Independence is an unconditional value for Ukrainians, as it is for all other sovereign nations. We appreciate that over these 35 years, we have built relations with China based on mutual respect and full recognition of the values of our peoples. We count on further cooperation and on China playing a strong diplomatic role in bringing Russia’s war against our country to an end. Peace can be our shared achievement.

Clearer version of the landing footage. via 空天逐梦

This mission marks China's first-ever successful recovery attempt of the first stage of an orbital-class launch vehicle using landing legs, and China's first successful booster recovery on land. It is a pivotal flight test for ZhuQue-3 as it transitions from the technological demonstration and verification phase toward the engineering application phase of reusability. This mission further verified the design correctness and reliability of the ZhuQue-3 reusable launch vehicle system, validated its first-stage recovery capability and engineering maturity.

MISSION SUCCESS | ZhuQue-3 Y2 Reusable Launch Vehicle Achieved Full Success in Orbital Insertion and First-Stage Recovery On August 19, 2026, at 07:35 (UTC+8), the ZhuQue-3 (ZQ-3) Y2 reusable launch vehicle lifted off from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Pilot Zone. Approximately 137 seconds after lift-off, the first and second stages separated. The second stage continued its flight and successfully delivered the Honghu 03 satellite, independently developed by Hongqing Technology, into its designated orbit. At approximately 07:41, the first stage performed a successful soft touchdown at the LandSpace Landing Site#1 in Minqin County, Gansu Province, following the planned trajectory — marking the full success of the flight test mission.

超级动画巨制《牛来》单日票房超50万元，综合票房突破100万元！！目前已加紧排片2500场！！ 厅里满座，票价18元，整个观影过程中大家都在笑。有观众表示：“看完之后，我坐那坐了3分钟没缓过来劲，大脑一片空白。这建模是2026年的技术吗？AI都写不出这么离谱的剧情，包括它的字幕还有错别字。” 导演的一位亲友称，这是导演和他妈妈两人，亲力亲为创作的电影。用时5年，没请团队，全靠手搓。 影片发行方谈到，导演是熟人朋友，当初看到成片时曾劝导演别上了，但他坚持想上，“好不容易做出来了，就帮他上一下院线。”

Ma Jianping, a barbecue shop owner in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, has recently gone viral on Chinese social media because he bears a striking resemblance to Elon Musk, and people are suggesting that he rename his barbecue shop to "SpaceX Barbecue".

Wait to hear - and see - the answer. Question: What evidence is the WH seeing that Iran is now prepared to negotiate? @KristenhCNN “We don’t know Jim. They have not given us any evidence of this.”