--- date: 2026-09-24 subject: "China's UN warning on tech blocs | Uzbek J-10CE deliveries | Beijing slams U.S. space weapons" --- **China's UN envoy Fu Cong told the Security Council** that exclusive technology blocs and pressure on countries to pick sides would fragment AI technical standards and system compatibility, creating major security risks. **China's defense ministry called its military trade with Uzbekistan lawful** after reports that the Central Asian country has taken delivery of J-10CE fighters, which would make it the jet's second foreign operator after Pakistan. **The ministry also accused Washington of turning space into a battlefield** after Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the United States has on-orbit space control weapons. # Top Stories - **China's UN envoy tells the Security Council that exclusive tech blocs will fragment AI standards** — Fu Cong, China's ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Council that exclusive "small circles" in technology and forcing countries to pick sides would fragment technical standards and system compatibility. That fragmentation would create major security risks, Fu said at an open meeting on AI and international security, per Xinhua. On military AI, Fu said humans must always keep final decision-making authority, and opposed using AI weapons for indiscriminate attacks or deliberate attacks on civilians. Fu also promoted the World AI Cooperation Organization, a Shanghai-based body created at China's initiative, calling it the world's first intergovernmental AI organization. [China Military Online](http://www.81.cn/ss_208539/16488869.html) [state media] - **China's defense ministry answers reports of Uzbek J-10CE fighter deliveries by calling bilateral arms trade lawful** — Asked about reports that Uzbekistan has taken delivery of J-10CE fighters, the export version of China's J-10C, defense ministry spokesperson Senior Col. Jiang Bin said the two militaries have friendly ties. Their normal military trade complies with international law and practice and targets no third party, Jiang told The Paper at the ministry's regular briefing. The reports make Uzbekistan the jet's second foreign operator after Pakistan, in a Central Asian market long dominated by Russian warplanes, per the South China Morning Post. Uzbek presidential footage showed at least six of the jets, and earlier reports put the order at 24. The J-10CE costs less than the U.S. F-16 and France's Rafale, Semafor reports. A Bangladeshi government adviser said Dhaka "paid attention" after a Pakistani J-10CE shot down an Indian Rafale in 2025. [The Paper](https://m.thepaper.cn/detail/34141494) [state-affiliated] [South China Morning Post](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3365756/uzbekistan-confirmed-second-country-buy-chinas-j-10ce-fighter) [Semafor](https://www.semafor.com/article/09/01/2026/uzbekistan-confirms-purchase-of-chinese-j-10-fighter-jets) - **China's defense ministry critcizes U.S. acknowledgment of on-orbit weapons by accusing Washington of turning space into a battlefield** — Defense ministry spokesperson Jiang Bin said U.S. moves to weaponize space will only intensify a "space arms race" and make orbit a new arena of great-power rivalry. Jiang was responding to Air Force Secretary Troy Meink's Sept. 14 statement that the United States has "on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action," per Reuters. Global Times, a state-run tabloid, called it the first U.S. acknowledgment of offensive space capability. A U.S. Space Force statement defined space control as using kinetic means, such as physical strikes, and nonkinetic ones against an adversary's capabilities. Nonkinetic means could include lasers that blind satellites or jamming of their data links, per The Straits Times. Foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun had urged Washington on Sept. 15 to stop expanding its military buildup in orbit, per Reuters. [Global Times](https://mil.huanqiu.com/article/4TLBb6fYlDM) [state media] [MarketScreener](https://www.marketscreener.com/news/china-warns-us-space-weapons-could-fuel-arms-race-ce785bd2d88ef52d) [The Straits Times](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-urges-us-to-stop-preparing-for-war-in-outer-space) - **Xiaomi previews an AI model design that reads million-token inputs on about one-fifth the compute** — Luo Fuli, who leads Xiaomi's MiMo large-model team, previewed alongside a technical paper the architecture behind MiMo-V3, the successor to the MiMo-V2.6 models whose training CTD detailed [September 23rd](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-09-23/). On an input of 1 million tokens, its core component, HySparse2, needs about one-fifth of the compute of Xiaomi's current design, according to the paper. That saving lands in prefill, the stage in which a model reads its whole input before writing its first word. The model's running memory of what it has read also shrinks to less than a quarter of the current design's. Two memory-sharing techniques account for much of the saving, letting the model finish prefill after running only the first half of its layers. On a test of finding information buried in long inputs, HySparse2 outscored the sliding-window design in Xiaomi's current MiMo-V2.6.[36Kr](https://www.36kr.com/p/3996783462780800) - **Automaker GAC claims the world's first mass production of a metallic glass electric vehicle drive** — GAC Group says it is the first in the world to mass-produce an electric vehicle drive built on amorphous alloy, a material also called metallic glass. The Chinese automaker is developing the drive with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Dongguan Institute of Materials Science and Technology under a new strategic agreement, Gasgoo reports. The alloy's atoms sit in a disordered arrangement, so it magnetizes far more easily than the silicon steel normally used in motor cores and wastes less energy as heat. The same material comes as strip about roughly one-fifth the width of a human hair and is brittle making it previously difficult in automotive manufacturing. GAC's official figures put peak motor efficiency at 99.03%, which the company says lets each kilowatt-hour of electricity carry a car one kilometer farther. The first car to carry the drive will be the 2027 Aion RT. [Gasgoo](https://auto.gasgoo.com/news/202609/23I70473033C501.shtml) # Robotics & Autonomous Systems - **Robot data company Maniformer launches what it calls the world's first crowdsourcing platform for robot training data** — Maniformer CEO Yao Maoqing launched Mifeng Pai in Shanghai, calling it the world's first all-category crowdsourcing platform for physical-AI data, the real-world recordings used to train robots. Because the recordings do not depend on any particular robot body, they can be converted to train different models and machines, the company says. Users wear Maniformer's MEgo capture devices while doing their jobs or chores and are paid by the hours of recorded data the platform accepts. Each device captures first-person video, body and hand positions tracked to the millimeter, and touch and force data, which software breaks into standard actions such as grasp and twist. Maniformer said on Aug. 31 that its devices had already collected more than 1 million hours of real-world data, and a one-month beta drew 20,000 registered users. The company is backing the launch with a 100-million-yuan ($15 million) subsidy covering collection tasks, device fees and insurance, and is waiving device fees through Oct. 22. [GeekPark](https://geekpark.net/news/371003) - **Robot-AI developer Knowin claims its GLOW model learns a task from one human demonstration** — Knowin released a technical report on GLOW, a learning architecture for general-purpose robots that it says can pick up a new task after watching a human demonstrate it once. GLOW merges what the company previously split into separate Brain and Act capabilities into one model. Supporting systems generate synthetic physical experience and simulate the outcomes of candidate actions. On LIBERO-Pro, a manipulation test that shuffles the objects, goals and layouts a robot faces, GLOW's average success rate reached 86.7% against 58.2% for the general-purpose model GPT-6 Astra, according to the company. Knowin also reports a lead of 40 percentage points over a GPT-6 baseline across RoboDojo's simulated tasks. A separate Knowin model, KnowinBrain-1.5, ranked first on Embodied Arena's leaderboard for answering questions about physical scenes. [QbitAI](https://www.qbitai.com/2026/09/496816.html) - **Automaker Changan ships its first car with an in-house driver assistance system on a Horizon Robotics chip** — Changan launched the Qiyuan Q06, the first model to carry its self-developed Tianshu Pilot driver assistance system, at a limited-time starting price of 135,900 yuan ($20,000). Changan describes Tianshu Pilot as a one-stage end-to-end model, a single neural network that turns sensor input directly into driving decisions. Huawei and Momenta, by contrast, sell their driver assistance systems to other automakers. The top Ultra trim pairs a 256-line lidar, a laser sensor that maps surroundings in 3D, with a J6P driving chip from Chinese designer Horizon Robotics. According to Changan, the car's automatic emergency braking can bring it to a full stop from as high as 135 km/h, about 84 mph. Presale orders passed 11,000 within two hours of opening, the company says. [GeekPark](https://geekpark.net/news/370929) - **Chinese metro train with more than 600 sensors debuts at Berlin rail show, billed as first to apply embodied AI to rail** — A new-generation Chinese metro train made its world debut at InnoTrans, the rail industry exhibition in Berlin, billed as the first to apply embodied intelligence to rail, per CCTV News. The term covers AI systems that sense and act in the physical world. The train's more than 600 sensors work with cameras, radar and an onboard computer to monitor the line and the vehicle's own state in real time. AI software uses that data to flag anomalies and predict faults. More than 200 Chinese companies are among the show's more than 3,000 exhibitors. The train stays on display until InnoTrans closes Sept. 25. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/1/006/845.htm) - **Tsinghua and Infinigence AI open-source RLark, a platform that schedules robots like cloud computing chips** — Tsinghua University and Infinigence AI have open-sourced RLark, a cloud platform for managing hardware used in embodied AI, the field of models that control robots. Its runtime lets robots and cameras be requested, scheduled and reused the way cloud platforms hand out graphics processors. The developers say it cuts the time to connect a new device from about an hour to roughly five minutes. In a cross-region test, a cloud cluster in Guangdong trained a robot in Beijing, running the full loop from requesting devices and returning real-machine data to updating the robot's control software. Submitted tasks start running within 10 seconds, according to the developers. The code is published on GitHub under the RLinf project. [QbitAI](https://www.qbitai.com/2026/09/496767.html) # Digital Infrastructure - **China's industry ministry puts 6G, satellite internet and a controlled opening of telecom services to foreign firms on its network agenda** — Vice Minister Yu Xiaohui of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), which regulates telecom and sets industrial policy, laid out network priorities at the opening of Beijing's PT Expo China. Yu called for "orderly" pilot programs opening value-added telecom services, the category covering data centers and internet services built on top of basic networks, to foreign participation. The vice minister also urged stronger supervision and safety governance of AI services and faster work on 6G core technologies and standards. The infrastructure agenda includes pushing broadband toward 10-gigabit speeds on both fixed and mobile networks, building low-orbit satellite internet systems and improving the layout of international submarine and land cables. The three-day exhibition includes 25 forums and the release of more than 20 research reports and industry standards. [MIIT](https://wap.miit.gov.cn/xwfb/bldhd/art/2026/art_2fc0c942477d4a2694137f8fe8d17f47.html) [govt] - **Ant Secure Computing opens testing of a cloud that lets companies use sensitive data in AI without exposing it** — Ant Secure Computing launched Misuan No. 1, an enterprise cloud platform, at a forum of the Apsara Conference, Alibaba's annual cloud event in Hangzhou, and opened a first round of invitation-only testing. The platform is built on confidential computing, which processes data inside protected hardware environments so it can be used without being exposed. Company president Liu Qianwei said it supports data collaboration across institutions and lets enterprises use their own data securely in cloud AI, keeping it "usable but invisible." The company says the same technology already runs a data aggregation platform linking Jiangxi province's provincial, city and county governments. With MYbank and the agriculture ministry's big data development center, it built a platform that uses farm data to assess credit for rural borrowers. [Leiphone](https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/vcFXR69YQUTL9k43.html) - **BYD's 2,000th highway fast charging station completes coverage of China's busiest expressways** — BYD opened its 2,000th highway flash charging station at a service area on the Beijing-Shanghai expressway in Yangzhou, meeting its annual construction target early. Flash charging is the automaker's own fast charging network, and its highway stations now reach every trunk route in China's "11 vertical, 11 horizontal" expressway grid, said Wang Junbao, who runs the business. BYD pairs the network with its second-generation Blade Battery, which it says survived a nail puncture during flash charging after hundreds of flash-charge cycles. The company plans 20,000 flash charging stations nationwide by the end of 2026, against 11,586 built so far. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/1/006/764.htm) # Strategic Context - **China's commerce ministry says He Lifeng and Bessent held their first AI dialogue under the U.S.-China trade mechanism** — Commerce ministry spokesperson He Yadong said Vice Premier He Lifeng and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held their first dialogue on artificial intelligence as each side's lead negotiator under the two countries' trade consultation mechanism. That places inside the mechanism the AI exchange that the Xinhua readout, as CTD reported in the [September 21st](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-09-21/) edition, had listed alongside the New York talks. The ministry, which runs China's side of the trade negotiations, called the eighth round candid, in-depth and constructive and said it reached "multiple consensuses." Its agenda covered reciprocal tariff reduction arrangements, establishing a trade council and an investment council, and extending the Kuala Lumpur joint economic and trade arrangement. China will keep in close communication with the U.S. side on follow-up work under the mechanism, the spokesperson said. [Wallstreetcn](https://wallstreetcn.com/articles/3782454)