In today's podcast:

China's top political advisor Wang Huning on Tuesday met with a delegation of Japan's ruling coalition, led by Secretary General Hiroshi Moriyama of the Liberal Democratic Party and Secretary General Makoto Nishida of the Komeito Party.

China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday lambasted new rules issued by US President Joe Biden's administration that reportedly aim to keep advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips and technology out of China, as the country vowed to take firm measures to safeguard the legitimate and lawful rights and interests of Chinese companies.

On UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves' recent visit to China, prominent British economist Gerard Lyons emphasized that the UK must go "further and faster" to achieve economic growth and new agreements with China would benefit British exporters and investors, in an exclusive interview with the Global Times.

The 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Dingri county, Xigaze, Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region caused varying degrees of damage to temples in the epicenter region. Monks and nuns in these temples, like other residents, received care and rescue efforts amid the merciless natural disaster. During a recent visit to the earthquake-stricken area in Dingri county, the Global Times observed monks and nuns actively participating in the protection of historical relics in the affected temples.

When Xiong Zhu-ying, a Shaanbei storytelling inheritor and master of the Sanxian, a three-stringed traditional Chinese lute, handed his plectron to Spanish guitarist VJ in exchange for VJ's electric guitar pick, neither expected that their collaboration would go so smoothly, given that they did not even speak the same language. Yet, together, they created a rock-infused rendition of a folk drama, a performance that featured the character of the "headless monk" in the second chapter of the hit Chinese AAA game BlackMyth: Wukong.