China’s women’s football team received with ‘Steel Roses, rise again, defend title’ chants as it arrives in Australia for Asian Cup
Team captain Wu Haiyan said the squad had completed nearly 42 days of intensive training in Shenzhen, China, and was well prepared for the tournament.
How technology, culture and daily Olympic life powered China to astounding success at Milan-Cortina Olympic Games
A visit to the official Milan-Cortina 2026 website offers an immediate clue. It features Olympic AI, described as the first official large language model deployed at an Olympics. The system is built on Qwen, a foundation model developed by Chinese tech company Alibaba.
China claims two snow golds, Norway’s Klaebo extends Olympic gold record to ten at Milan-Cortina
Shortly afterwards, five-time Olympian Xu Mengtao won China’s second gold and made history by becoming the first freestyle skier to claim consecutive Olympic aerials gold medals.
China Focus: Year of the Horse’s Spring Festival Gala brings to fore China’s technological drift to robotics
Leading the charge was Unitree Robotics located in Hangzhou in east China, a returning performer that commanded attention on Monday night. Moving beyond the somewhat stiff dance routines of 2025, its new robots took centre stage in a martial arts spectacle, wielding swords and nunchucks alongside human masters from a renowned kung-fu school.
South Africa and China deepen diplomatic relations with signing of free trade agreement
Gideon Chitanga, researcher at the University of Johannesburg Centre for Africa-China Studies, said the agreement would expand South African markets and contribute to economic growth.
Kenyans mark Spring Festival Gala that featured cultural performances that included dragon and lion dances, Kung Fu and a cappella music
Sino-Kenyan cultural ties, as well as people-to-people exchanges, have thrived under the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, she said, adding that in 2025, Kenya and China implemented a series of high-profile cultural exchange programs.
Temple fair in Uganda celebrates people-to-people exchanges ahead of Chinese New Year
Fan Xuecheng, charge d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Uganda, said that the Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival for the Chinese people and that celebrations such as the temple fair reflect the people-centred nature of China-Uganda cooperation.
Despite Africa’s co-development model with Beijing, Chinese financing remains opaque
Africa-China security cooperation is expanding, but African countries are approaching it cautiously, focusing mainly on non-combat support. Maritime security is one area of interest, with African countries looking to China for patrol vessels, surveillance systems and technical training to help secure vulnerable waterways such as the Gulf of Guinea, the Red Sea and the Mozambique Channel
Young Tanzanian inventor defies cultural taboos to start manufacturing fertiliser from human hair
Today, the 27-year-old Tanzanian is the founder and chief executive officer of Cut-Off Recycle Limited, a waste management and agricultural support company that transforms human hair into organic fertilisers.
It’s time US President Trump realised rules are not abstract ideals, but minimum guarantees of stability in a diverse world
For major countries, the true measure of responsibility lies not in how far they can test the boundaries of power, but in how consistently they subject it to rules. Respect for international law is what separates leadership from dominance, and order from coercion.
