In today’s podcast:

On June 23 and 25, the Global Times held its "Overseas China Week" events with photo exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The exhibitions highlighted areas in which China-Latin America and the Caribbean cooperation has flourished, such as new energy, electric vehicles, satellite remote sensing and agricultural technologies.

The Global Times learned from the Deep Space Exploration Lab that prototypes of the in-situ lunar soil 3D printing system and the lunar soil water ice thermal extraction system, which are key devices to support the country's future long-term research facilities on the surface of moon, have made new progress.

Looking back at the first half of 2025, the key word for Bao Haigang, a merchant in Yiwu, known as the world's "supermarket" in East China's Zhejiang Province, is "busy." Bao's hectic experience in the first half of the year is also shared by many other merchants in Yiwu.

The US on Monday set new August 1 deadline and warned Japan and South Korea of 25 percent tariff, 30 percent for South Africa and others as high as 40 percent. What lessons can the world take away from the US policy flip-flop on tariffs? The Global Times invited three international scholars to join this discussion.

58-year-old Liu Shili never imagined a grassroots reader like him would one day become an internet sensation, until his recent appearance at the Beijing Book Building.