Pakistan has expanded Gulf defense ties — earlier cooperation with Saudi Arabia, a trilateral defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and a new defense cooperation pact with Kuwait signed on Aug. 27. Middle East specialist Wang Jin said Pakistan’s strong military capability, Sunni-majority identity and long-standing military links with Gulf states make it a preferred partner and likely to play a larger supporting role in regional security. He added this does not imply near-term displacem

Li Chao, deputy director of the policy research office at the China State Planner, said at the agency's August briefing the body will prioritize practical steps to accelerate embodied intelligence deployment by building training fields and pilot application bases to iterate robotics and embodied-AI in real scenarios. The planner will coordinate training-site construction and strengthen supply of data, models and standards: build high-quality real-device data collection systems to ease training-data shortages; support model firms to pursue multiple technical routes using real data and real scenarios; and encourage innovation in vision, language, motion and world models to speed technology convergence and application. It will expand scenario libraries, urge industry partners to open real-world environments, support reliability and safety testing, and push faster application and industry scaling across manufacturing, medical, consumer, services and public safety sectors.

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