The Chinese president stood on a stage in Shanghai and laid out China's entire AI playbook in one speech.
It was his first-ever in-person appearance at the World AI Conference. I went through the whole thing and pulled out everything that matters.
- he opened with his signature maxim that great changes unseen in a century are unfolding across the world.
- he said AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country but a symphony of international cooperation.
- he reaffirmed China's commitment to open source AI in the name of openness and shared benefit.
- he warned against overstretching the concept of national security in AI, where one country puts its own security above everyone else's.
- he said China opposes the emergence of new historical injustices in AI, one of the strongest-worded lines in the speech.
- he pledged 5,000 AI training opportunities for developing countries over the next five years, naming ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the SCO, and BRICS.
- he committed to giving 30 countries access to a Chinese AI weather system that provides early disaster warnings.
- a day before the speech, 29 countries signed the agreement creating a new World AI Cooperation Organization headquartered in Shanghai.
strip away the politics and one thing stands out to me. he didn't pitch benchmarks or chatbots. he pitched AI as infrastructure, weather warnings for countries that lose thousands of lives to storms they never saw coming, and training programs for regions the AI boom has skipped.
meanwhile most of the Western AI conversation revolves around which lab ships the next frontier model.
I don't care who wins the race. I care whether the computing power reaches the people who need it.
The full speech is below, and it's worth your time.
A historic day in China’s space program!
China’s Long March-10B has successfully completed its maiden flight—and recovered its first stage via a sea-based net. This marks the country’s first-ever controlled rocket recovery. A major leap toward reusable launch capabilities. 🚀🌊🇨🇳
Over the past 200 years, China’s cultural confidence has been completely destroyed. Many so-called cultural giants are filled with Orientalist-style discrimination toward their own culture. Lacking modern scientific and technological standards, and after accepting so-called empirical scientific criteria, most Chinese historians of literature and history have essentially become mouthpieces for Western historical views or Marxist historical materialism. They have never applied the same standards to examine how Western literary and historical records were actually “verified.” To them, ancient texts have gone from golden rules to baseless nonsense—everything is dismissed as later forgeries.
Even when faced with ironclad evidence, they still rush to declare on social media that it is the “highest form of forgery.”As more and more archaeological artifacts are unearthed, the historical records, folk legends, and even mythological stories in Chinese history have received vivid, living corroboration. In particular, the emergence of molecular anthropology has delivered a devastating blow to many Western narratives (such as issues concerning the Jews or the Turks). Yet in China, it has become the mortal enemy of historical nihilists:
1. The Han Chinese are a mixed-blood nation that has been invaded countless times by barbarians; the so-called “Chinese people” do not exist.
This is completely wrong. The Han ethnicity and its branches are among the most genetically uniform and continuous populations in the world. This is a conclusion drawn from DNA research.
2. The Tang Dynasty was a Xianbei (proto-Mongolic) dynasty, not a Han Chinese one.
This rumor mainly originated from Buddhist monks who spread it while resisting the emperor’s suppression of Buddhism. However, according to modern DNA studies, the imperial clans of both the Sui and Tang dynasties had extremely pure Han ancestry, as did the clans they intermarried with, such as the Zhangsun (长孙) and Dugu (独孤) families.
3. China’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors are all fabrications.
Modern DNA research shows that most Chinese people can trace their ancestry back to three primary male forebears from 4,500–6,000 years ago—the era of the Three Sovereigns.
4. The story of Yu the Great taming the floods is fake.
Through archaeological analysis of the Jishi Mountain at the Lajia site, it has been confirmed that a massive flood indeed occurred in China between approximately 2000–1920 BCE, caused by the collapse of a huge landslide-dammed lake at the scale of a “sea-level” disaster.
In short, the accuracy of Chinese historical records is far superior to that of most civilizations in human history. Many things once taken for granted—such as the idea that nearly all ancient myths (e.g., the legends of Pangu, Taiyi, Fuxi and Nüwa) were later inventions—may be completely overturned by future archaeology, which could offer entirely different interpretations.
President Xi and President Trump — looking back at their past meetings, one message stands out: the steady development of China-U.S. relations brings certainty and stability to the world.