In today’s podcast:

Japan's children's version of the defense white paper has been criticized by educators' groups for hyping a China-related crisis and violating children's rights. Chinese experts believe it underscores the growing pervasiveness of Japan’s militarist ethos.

The growing use of open-source artificial intelligence models from China by American technology and AI companies has drawn significant attention and sparked intense discussion within the US industry.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent erroneous remarks on the Taiwan question could be deliberate, former Singaporean foreign minister George Yeo told the Global Times during the 2025 Understanding China Conference in Guangzhou on Sunday.

In an exclusive interview with the Global Times, Eric Foster, the nephew of Edgar Snow, author of Red Star Over China, said he has seen how the very spirit and qualities of the CPC, which his uncle so vividly documented in Yan'an, are being carried forward and illuminated in the present day.

Efforts are being made to protect Thuja sutchuenensis, an endangered gymnosperm plant unique to China.