Chinese billionaire Jack Ma and Alibaba Group Holding executives met with teachers in Hangzhou to discuss the challenges and opportunities artificial intelligence presents for education.

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU opposition party, is on a visit to China, traveling to Hangzhou after visiting Beijing's Forbidden City and Mercedes-Benz facilities, and meeting with Alibaba.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz voiced concerns about Chinese industrial overcapacity after meeting President Xi Jinping, as he seeks to rein in a trade deficit that has grown fourfold since 2020. “This dynamic is not healthy,” Merz told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday, according to Reuters. He also highlighted “risks” from the close connections between the two countries, including problems suffered by German manufacturers last year when China tightened export controls on basic computer ch...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited China’s eastern tech hub of Hangzhou on Thursday and met leading figures including those from Alibaba Group Holding and Unitree Robotics, signalling growing international recognition of the country’s robotics and artificial intelligence technologies. Merz had lunch and took group photos with local entrepreneurs, including Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu Yongming and Unitree founder and CEO Wang Xingxing, according to a social media account run by Chinese state...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visits Unitree Robotics in Hangzhou, watching Wubot and robot fights  Global Times

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Hangzhou on Thursday, where he attended a robot exhibition and witnessed demonstrations of their skills, including dancing, fighting, and hand movements.

Chancellor Merz visits the tech metropolis Hangzhou on the last day of his trip to China.