Daily brief
China has added 20 Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, to an export control list, restricting items with dual civilian and military uses. The commerce ministry stated the move is meant to curb Japan's 'remilitarization' and called it fully justified. This action escalates ongoing trade and geopolitical tensions between the two nations.
The Chinese AI company DeepSeek reportedly trained its model using Nvidia's most advanced chips, circumventing existing US export bans on such technology to China.
AI company Anthropic has accused Chinese AI labs of conducting 'distillation attacks' to steal data from its Claude model, following similar warnings from OpenAI (ongoing coverage).
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is traveling to China with a focus on economic relations.
China has banned new Brazilian meat plants from exporting to its market for three years.