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🇨🇳🇺🇸 On Jul. 22, FM Wang Yi met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Manila, the Philippines. FM Wang said: 🔹Following the historic summit in Beijing, the task of both sides now is to stay on the track laid out by the two heads of state by overcoming distractions and obstacles to turn their consensus into understanding and concrete action across government and sectors. 🔹Both sides should promote world peace and security through bilateral strategic stability, and provide a strong impetus for international cooperation through constructive interactions between China and the U.S. 🔹The U.S. side is urged to respect China's core interests, uphold the one-China principle, properly manage differences, and address China's legitimate concerns. Both sides viewed the meeting as practical, positive and constructive. They agreed to give play to the role of political and diplomatic channels, make good preparations for the next stage of China-U.S. high-level exchanges, and advance substantive progress in building a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability.

President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai and delivered the keynote address. President Xi noted that today, the world has entered an unprecedented period of active innovation on AI technologies, carrying within it great opportunities as well as challenges to governance. In China’s view, all countries should take a people-centered approach and develop AI for the positive and for good. We should ensure that AI is an important driver for shared prosperity and common security. We should join hands to build a just and equitable system for global AI governance.

President Xi pointed out that thanks to the joint efforts of all parties, the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) has come into being in Shanghai. This is a major move by China to answer the call of the Global South and unite the international community together to promote vigorously AI development and governance. It will be an important milestone in the history of AI development.