South China Morning Post
China-led SCO, a counterweight to the West
Day: August 18, 2026
China censors public mourning as it holds former premier’s funeral
Flags at government sites are flying at half-mast and security vehicles are parked in the heart of Beijing, as China mourns former Premier Zhu Rongji. Zhu died of an illness last week at 97, and will be cremated at a funeral in Beijing on Tuesday. There has not been footage from the ceremony, which is being kept low-key. Zhu, who served as China’s premier from 1998 to 2003, is remembered as one of the country’s most important economic reformers. While hailing the late premier as a “loyal” party member, the…
Why is Chinese state media telling people to stop using English AI terms?
China’s state media has called for English-language terms related to artificial intelligence (AI) to be dropped in favour of standardised Chinese equivalents in a push to boost the country’s “discourse power”. As AI technologies have rapidly spread in China, English terms have entered common speech in the country, such as “agent” and “LLM” for large language model, a commentary published by the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily noted earlier this month. The article argued that reliance on foreign terminology would lead to “cognitive dependency” and ultimately undermine the country’s voice…