In one of the biggest highlights of BRICS 2026, Xi Jinping told PM Modi that China and India are "partners, not rivals, and opportunities, not threats" for each other, laying out a four-point framework for steadier ties. Modi thanked Xi for backing India's BRICS chairship and confirmed India will fully support China as it takes over the chairship in 2027 to host the 19th Summit. Border peace, trade imbalances and market access also featured prominently in the talks.


BRICS Summit 2026: PM Modi, Xi reach key consensus on ties, China to assume BRICS chairmanship in 2027

Marking two decades since its inception, the expanded 11-member BRICS bloc is pushing to transform the Global South from passive "rule-takers" into active "rule-shapers" of the international system. As world leaders gather in New Delhi, the key question remains whether a diverse group of nations can forge sustainable consensus, challenge Western-dominated institutions, and act as a stabilizing force in a fractured global order.

 The verdict-BRICS at 20: Can the expanded bloc rewrite the rules of global power? 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the unanimous adoption of the BRICS New Delhi Declaration 2026, marking a landmark moment for the summit. In his concluding address, PM Modi emphasized that a rapidly changing world cannot be steered by outdated institutions and called for urgent structural reforms in global governance. He highlighted the imperative of ensuring equal participation for the Global South in emerging technology standards and decision-making frameworks. Watch PM Modi’s complete address at the BRICS Summit closing session.


BRICS summit 2026 latest update: New Delhi declaration adopted! 

World leaders have gathered in New Delhi for the high-stakes 2026 BRICS Summit, hosted by India. The summit brings together heads of state and top diplomats to address key global issues, including economic integration, Global South priorities, trade mechanisms, and geopolitical challenges. With major bilateral meetings scheduled on the sidelines of the summit, the discussions are set to shape strategic partnerships across emerging economies. 

BRICS summit 2026 in New Delhi: World leaders gather for high stakes meeting 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has landed in New Delhi with a high-level delegation, marking his first visit to India in seven years. His meeting with PM Modi is being watched closely as the real test of the post-Galwan thaw. China remains India's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade hitting a record $151 billion, but border peace, market access and India's widening trade deficit are all set to dominate the conversation as Beijing pushes for deeper strategic dialogue.


BRICS Summit 2026: President Xi's first trip to India in nearly seven years 

BRICS Summit 2026: China urges strategic dialogue with India

The Global South took center stage in New Delhi as Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed world leaders to Bharat Mandapam for the 18th BRICS Summit. Against the backdrop of escalating conflict in West Asia and threats to Strait of Hormuz commerce, Modi met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, calling for a "win-win strategy" grounded in long-term peace and safe navigation. With major powers in attendance, the summit highlights emerging economies driving a new, resilient global order amid geopolitical storms.


BRICS Summit 2026: Top world leaders in New Delhi as BRICS Summit begins

As BRICS diplomacy takes center stage, all eyes are on the Modi-Xi meeting, the real test of whether India and China's post-2020 thaw can hold. China remains India's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade hitting a record $151.1 billion, but India's trade deficit has also climbed to a record $112.16 billion. Border peace, market access and reducing that imbalance top the agenda, as India pushes for a more balanced, strategic relationship beyond Galwan.


BRICS Summit 2026: Record $151 billion trade between India & China

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in India for the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi. This marks Xi’s first visit to India in seven years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to welcome the Chinese President as world leaders gather for the key summit. The BRICS meeting will focus on global politics, trade, security and economic cooperation. 


BRICS Summit 2026: Chinese President Xi accompanied by high-level delegation 

BRICS Summit 2026: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in New Delhi

BRICS Summit 2026: Modi-Xi meeting to test India-China reset after border tensions 

Day two of the 18th BRICS Summit brings the meeting everyone's watching: PM Modi and President Xi Jinping sit down today, Xi's first visit to India in seven years. It comes as both sides work to stabilize ties after the 2020 Ladakh standoff, with progress already made on border patrolling and direct flights. Alongside the bilateral, "Strengthening Multilateralism" tops the summit agenda as world leaders gather at Bharat Mandapam for the closing day.


BRICS Summit 2026: Xi Jinping's first India visit in seven years, since the Galwan clash

Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to India for BRICS summit on Saturday that could mark the biggest step in a cautious thaw after years of hostility between the two countries. Xi's visit for the September 12-13 BRICS summit would be his first trip to India since October 2019, and follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi's August 2025 visit to China. The nuclear-armed Asian giants have been been slowly improving ties since a deadly 2020 border clash. Flights, some visas and high-level contacts have gradually resumed. Can the Modi-Xi meeting help improve ties?


PM Modi's meeting with Xi Jinping to test India-China reset after border tensions

BRICS 2026 comes at a time of heightened global tensions, with the Russia-Ukraine war and the wider Middle East conflict putting diplomacy and peace efforts in focus. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly stressed that dialogue and diplomacy are the way forward, including in his recent engagement with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 



BRICS 2026: India to lead key BRICS deliberations 

China and the United States are pushing to reach a deal on reciprocal tariff cuts on $30 billion worth of goods, a Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesperson said. The push comes ahead of a planned meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, raising hopes of a fresh trade breakthrough.

China & US negotiators seek reciprocal tariff cuts

Fifty years after Mao Zedong’s death, his image is finding renewed appeal among parts of China’s younger generation. Some young Chinese are turning to Mao’s writings and legacy amid economic uncertainty, workplace pressure, inequality and growing competition for jobs and education.

Is Mao the new Confucius of Chinese Gen Z

India’s growing economic and military weight, China’s vast industrial scale and Russia’s formidable arsenal make the BRICS bloc a major emerging force in global power politics. From defence capabilities and nuclear strength to economic and technological influence, the BRICS hard-power map reveals how its key powers stack up.

BRICS military map: The world's new centres of hard power

At least 20 people were killed, and five others were reported missing after a docked cargo ship in Qingdao, on the northeastern Chinese coast, caught fire, as reported by the Chinese state media. The ship was docked for repairs at Beihai Shipbuilding Co. According to Chinese Xinhua News Agency, the ship has been identified as the Ocean Melody, which sails under a Liberian flag, according to tracking website VesselFinder.&nbsp;The ship caught fire on Thursday, September 10, at 11 am Thursday and was extinguished by 2.30 pm in local time. A total of 42 people were on the vessel; 12 of them were safely evacuated. Five were injured and taken to the hospital, and they remained in stable condition.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/how-effective-uk-sanctions-israeli-settlements-1788972395944">8 Arab, Muslim countries back sanctions on Israeli settlements: How effective can they be?</a>Chinese President Xi Jinping issued “important instructions” to urgently conduct rescues of missing people. &nbsp;Xi warned that "all regions and relevant departments must draw profound lessons from this incident, thoroughly investigate and rectify all types of fire hazards".Chinese Premier Li Qang also urged the search for and rescue of “trapped” people and for those injured to receive medical treatment, and "strictly prevent secondary disasters".Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding is a major shipyard that operates in Qingdao, Shandong Province, controlled by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation. It is one of the largest and strategically important industrial shipyards operating in China, spanning over 330 yards.

At least 20 people were killed and five remain missing after the Ocean Melody cargo ship caught fire while docked for repairs in Qingdao, China.

At least 20 people were killed, and five others were reported missing after a docked cargo ship in Qingdao, on the northeastern Chinese coast, caught fire, as reported by the Chinese state media. The ship was docked for repairs at Beihai Shipbuilding Co. According to Chinese Xinhua News Agency, the ship has been identified as the Ocean Melody, which sails under a Liberian flag, according to tracking website VesselFinder. The ship caught fire on Thursday, September 10, at 11 am Thursday and was extinguished by 2.30 pm in local time. A total of 42 people were on the vessel; 12 of them were safely evacuated. Five were injured and taken to the hospital, and they remained in stable condition. Also Read: 8 Arab, Muslim countries back sanctions on Israeli settlements: How effective can they be? Chinese President Xi Jinping issued “important instructions” to urgently conduct rescues of missing people. Xi warned that "all regions and relevant departments must draw profound lessons from this incident, thoroughly investigate and rectify all types of fire hazards". Chinese Premier Li Qang also urged the search for and rescue of “trapped” people and for those injured to receive medical treatment, and "strictly prevent secondary disasters". Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding is a major shipyard that operates in Qingdao, Shandong Province, controlled by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation. It is one of the largest and strategically important industrial shipyards operating in China, spanning over 330 yards.

At least 20 people were killed, and five remain missing after the Ocean Melody cargo ship caught fire while docked for repairs in Qingdao, China.

Qingdao ship fire: At least 20 killed, five missing after cargo vessel catches fire in China

India’s hosting of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi puts India-China ties under the spotlight. With strategic competition and tensions still shaping the relationship, the summit could offer Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping a crucial opportunity to reset ties and reshape the balance within BRICS.

BRICS summit 2026: India-China ties remain a focal point 

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have sent congratulatory messages to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the country’s 78th founding anniversary. Beijing and Moscow reaffirmed their commitment to close strategic cooperation with Pyongyang.

Xi-Putin vow stronger ties with Kim Jong-Un

As India prepares to host the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, artificial intelligence and quantum computing are emerging as key priorities for its presidency. India is expected to push cooperation in advanced technologies, strengthen innovation partnerships and promote practical outcomes for BRICS nations.


BRICS summit 2026: Economic cooperation at the heart of BRICS summit

As India prepares to host the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, artificial intelligence and quantum computing are emerging as key priorities for its presidency. India is expected to push cooperation in advanced technologies, strengthen innovation partnerships and promote practical outcomes for BRICS nations.

BRICS summit 2026: AI & quantum computing: Two important sectors for India 

Russia is adapting its Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation stealth fighter to function as an airborne mothership capable of launching, recovering, and coordinating swarms of multi-role mini-drones. This configuration allows the crewed aircraft to remain at a safe stand-off distance while dispatching low-observable unmanned vehicles for reconnaissance, electronic warfare, and precision strikes. 


Su-57 drone integration could reshape Russia's air combat

Beijing just drew a hard legal line on AI abuse. China's Supreme People's Court issued new guidelines clarifying that creating or distributing recognizable digital replicas—cloned faces or voices—without consent violates rights and creates liability for spreading false or defamatory claims with them. 


China sets new AI rules to crack down on deepfakes, voice cloning and false content

The Russia-Ukraine war has seen drones become extremely important weapons on the battlefield. A new report has thrown light on how Beijing is helping Moscow sustain its large-scale drone warfare.

China secretly powers Putin's killer drone war in Ukraine

A week before Xi Jinping is expected in New Delhi for the BRICS Summit, India and China's militaries opened a new line of dialogue — the first-ever Corps Commander-level talks at the Wacha-Damai point in Arunachal Pradesh, led by Lt Gen Girish Kalia. The meeting comes amid reported tensions in Arunachal's Taksing area and follows an August 25 Beijing meeting between NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese FM Wang Yi on an eight-point border management plan.


India-China hold first-ever corps commander talks in Arunachal ahead of Xi's BRICS visit

Zheng’an has emerged as an unlikely guitar-making hub in China, with more than 140 guitar factories now operating in the town. The booming industry is also drawing local workers back home, creating jobs and transforming Zheng’an into a major centre for guitar production.

Zheng'an becomes China's unlikely guitar hub

The armies of India and China are scheduled to hold their first Corps Commander-level talks in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday, with the meeting set to take place at the Wacha-Damai border meeting point along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

India & China to hold Corps Commander-level talks in Wacha

DeepSeek is preparing to order at least 160,000 of Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT accelerators for a new gigawatt-scale data centre at Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia, according to a Bloomberg report.&nbsp;If it completes, it would be one of the largest known clusters of domestically manufactured Chinese AI accelerators anywhere — a roughly $2.56 billion order placed by China's most closely watched AI lab, with Nvidia locked out of the market.&nbsp;It reads as a decoupling milestone. The details complicate that reading considerably.&nbsp;The Caveat&nbsp;DeepSeek does not currently plan to use the 950DT chips for training.&nbsp;That is the part worth sitting with. Huawei designed and marketed the 950DT for training — the computationally brutal step where a model is actually built. DeepSeek intends to use them to run its models, not to create them, and has so far relied on Nvidia accelerators for training even after attempting to train earlier models on Huawei silicon.&nbsp;So the largest domestic-silicon order yet placed by a Chinese lab is, on current plans, an inference order. The dependency that actually constrains DeepSeek — access to Western chips for training — is not what this purchase resolves.&nbsp;The Second Constraint&nbsp;There is also a supply problem, and it is Huawei's.&nbsp;Component shortages, particularly for high-end memory, are reported to cap total 950DT output at the low hundreds of thousands of units this year. Against that ceiling, a single 160,000-unit order is enormous, and fulfilling it could stretch beyond twelve months.&nbsp;The data centre is scheduled to come online partially by late 2027 or early 2028 — a timeline that tells you this is a bet on capacity that does not exist yet, from a supplier that cannot currently build it at the required rate.&nbsp;Why It Still Matters&nbsp;None of which makes the order insignificant. Three things follow from it regardless.&nbsp;It commits Huawei's constrained output to a domestic customer, at a scale that squeezes everyone else in China queuing for the same chips. It gives Huawei a reference deployment at gigawatt scale, which is the credential its accelerator business has lacked. And it demonstrates that a serious Chinese lab will now plan multi-year infrastructure around domestic silicon rather than waiting for export policy to loosen.&nbsp;That last point is the durable one. Export controls were designed to make Chinese labs dependent on American hardware. A 160,000-chip order placed against a supplier that cannot yet deliver is not the behaviour of a company expecting that dependency to be restored.&nbsp;The Energy Question&nbsp;A gigawatt is the other number in this story, and it gets less attention than it deserves.&nbsp;That is a full nuclear reactor's worth of generation dedicated to a single facility. Inner Mongolia is a plausible site for exactly that reason — cheap land, cold air, and proximity to coal and wind generation — but a build of this scale is a regional energy commitment as much as a computing one.&nbsp;What To Watch&nbsp;Whether the order is confirmed at the reported volume or quietly reduced as Huawei's memory constraints bite. Whether DeepSeek's stated inference-only plan holds, or whether it shifts training onto the 950DT once the cluster exists — which would be the genuinely significant development. And whether other Chinese labs follow with orders of their own, or wait to see whether this one is delivered.&nbsp;For now the correct reading is narrower than the headline number suggests. This is a very large bet on Chinese silicon for the easier half of the problem.

DeepSeek is set to order 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators for a gigawatt data centre in Inner Mongolia. But it does not plan to train on them — and Huawei may not be able to build them fast enough.

DeepSeek is preparing to order at least 160,000 of Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT accelerators for a new gigawatt-scale data centre at Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia, according to a Bloomberg report. If it completes, it would be one of the largest known clusters of domestically manufactured Chinese AI accelerators anywhere — a roughly $2.56 billion order placed by China's most closely watched AI lab, with Nvidia locked out of the market. It reads as a decoupling milestone. The details complicate that reading considerably. The Caveat DeepSeek does not currently plan to use the 950DT chips for training. That is the part worth sitting with. Huawei designed and marketed the 950DT for training — the computationally brutal step where a model is actually built. DeepSeek intends to use them to run its models, not to create them, and has so far relied on Nvidia accelerators for training even after attempting to train earlier models on Huawei silicon. So the largest domestic-silicon order yet placed by a Chinese lab is, on current plans, an inference order. The dependency that actually constrains DeepSeek — access to Western chips for training — is not what this purchase resolves. The Second Constraint There is also a supply problem, and it is Huawei's. Component shortages, particularly for high-end memory, are reported to cap total 950DT output at the low hundreds of thousands of units this year. Against that ceiling, a single 160,000-unit order is enormous, and fulfilling it could stretch beyond twelve months. The data centre is scheduled to come online partially by late 2027 or early 2028 — a timeline that tells you this is a bet on capacity that does not exist yet, from a supplier that cannot currently build it at the required rate. Why It Still Matters None of which makes the order insignificant. Three things follow from it regardless. It commits Huawei's constrained output to a domestic customer, at a scale that squeezes everyone else in China queuing for the same chips. It gives Huawei a reference deployment at gigawatt scale, which is the credential its accelerator business has lacked. And it demonstrates that a serious Chinese lab will now plan multi-year infrastructure around domestic silicon rather than waiting for export policy to loosen. That last point is the durable one. Export controls were designed to make Chinese labs dependent on American hardware. A 160,000-chip order placed against a supplier that cannot yet deliver is not the behaviour of a company expecting that dependency to be restored. The Energy Question A gigawatt is the other number in this story, and it gets less attention than it deserves. That is a full nuclear reactor's worth of generation dedicated to a single facility. Inner Mongolia is a plausible site for exactly that reason — cheap land, cold air, and proximity to coal and wind generation — but a build of this scale is a regional energy commitment as much as a computing one. What To Watch Whether the order is confirmed at the reported volume or quietly reduced as Huawei's memory constraints bite. Whether DeepSeek's stated inference-only plan holds, or whether it shifts training onto the 950DT once the cluster exists — which would be the genuinely significant development. And whether other Chinese labs follow with orders of their own, or wait to see whether this one is delivered. For now the correct reading is narrower than the headline number suggests. This is a very large bet on Chinese silicon for the easier half of the problem.

DeepSeek is preparing to order at least 160,000 of Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT accelerators for a gigawatt-scale data centre in Inner Mongolia, in what would be one of the largest known clusters of Chinese-made AI silicon. But the company does not currently plan to use them for training — the step Huawei built the chip to handle.

DeepSeek is buying 160,000 Huawei chips, and the detail that matters is what it will not use them for

Artificial intelligence is no longer just changing the way people work, it is beginning to change who gets to keep their jobs. In China, a growing number of junior white-collar workers are being displaced as companies use AI to automate research, content creation, accounting and administrative tasks. With one in three job postings now considered highly exposed to AI, the technology is creating new opportunities but also raising a bigger question, will AI create enough jobs to replace the ones it eliminates? Take a look at this next report for more.

AI is rewriting China’s job market

Geopolitical tensions erupted at the Pacific Islands Forum as Taiwan’s Foreign Minister strongly condemned Beijing's aggressive "wolf warrior" diplomacy and alleged Chinese espionage operations at the summit. Host nation Palau and regional leaders raised grave safety concerns after China launched an ICBM test over Pacific nations without adequate prior notice. Despite threats and diplomatic pressure from Beijing, Taiwan vowed to stand firm against Chinese coercion in the region.


Taiwan raises 'concerns' over China's missile test

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