China

China's CO2 emissions were flat or falling for 18 months, analysts said, focusing attention on Beijing at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, amid the US absence.

Pierre Friedlingstein, Katharine Hayhoe, Du Toit, Mark Lubell, Dominik Wiedenhofer and 18 more

Project Syndicate, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Guardian and 8 more

Governments and companies raced to build vast AI data centers worldwide, prompting environmental concerns and local resistance while raising questions about power demand, siting and risky debt financing.

Serge Belongie, Julie L. Lockwood, Margaret Mitchell, Matthew E. Kahn, Avi Goldfarb and 11 more

German automakers lost market share and saw electric-vehicle sales plunge in China and the U.S. as low-cost Chinese rivals and the end of Chinese subsidies intensified pressure.

Aric Rindfleisch, Edgar Morgenroth, Andréas Nilsson, Oliver Stuenkel, Francesco Nicoli and 1 more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi defended her stance on Taiwan after a Chinese diplomat posted a social-media threat to behead her, prompting outrage in Tokyo and Beijing.

Ian Hall, Lithuania, Tim Wu