Day: April 9, 2026

Following the sweeping anti-corruption drive within the Chinese military, President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged its senior officers to deepen ideological rectification and political refining for a “brand new look” to celebrate the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) centenary next year. Xi told the officers to maintain resolute political loyalty to the party and said that any thought or action driven by self-interest or corruption was “fundamentally against the Communist Party’s nature and purpose”, state media reported. “Senior military officers must take the lead in restoring and promoting the fine traditions…

China looks set to claim another coup in its mission to build AI talent, with one of the world’s top scholars in artificial intelligence for robots listed among PhD supervisors at a Shanghai university. Su Hao, who holds two doctorates – one in mathematics and one in computer science – has appeared on Fudan University’s faculty list as a professor in electronic information specialising in AI. The list, published on March 31, names 322 PhD supervisors appointed this year. Previously, Su was a tenured associate professor at the University of…