Beijing municipal government issued its 15th Five-Year New Energy System Plan, directing coordinated energy and compute capacity planning to raise energy supply quality for compute facilities. The plan requires newly built compute centers to use 100% green power and calls for energy-saving and carbon-reduction retrofits of compute infrastructure, communications base stations and server rooms. It targets existing data centers to achieve power usage effectiveness (PUE) below 1.35 and for per-unit

Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun, at a routine briefing on Oct. 28, responded to German Chancellor Merz’s Oct. 27 remarks in Singapore urging countries to reduce unilateral dependence on China amid an EU–CPTPP cross‑regional pact on trade, tech and security. Guo reiterated China’s commitment to openness and cooperation, saying Beijing seeks to maintain stable, secure global industrial and supply chains and to provide momentum and certainty for the world economy. He stressed China‑Germany and China‑EU economic complementarity and industrial interlinkage, and urged Germany and the EU to act objectively and predictably, resolve differences through dialogue and jointly safeguard supply‑chain stability to provide greater certainty for business cooperation.

At a Mississippi rally Monday, Trump called the twice‑annual clock change “ridiculous” and said it “drives everyone crazy,” urging the Senate to move to permanent daylight saving time. The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House earlier this year but remains stalled in the Senate. Absent action, most of the U.S. will revert to standard time on Nov. 1 (this Sunday), moving U.S. financial market hours and the timing of economic data releases one hour later than during daylight saving time.