Chinese market regulators intensified IP enforcement in 1H2026, handling 317,000 cases overall, including over 14,000 trademark-infringement and patent-counterfeiting cases. Regulators conducted roughly 28,000 enforcement actions in high-incidence physical markets, focusing on key sectors, goods and markets and using administrative enforcement as a deterrent to protect rights holders, consumers and fair competition.

U.S. President Trump said he had a very good conversation with the new UK prime minister.

On July 20 Wuxi city and Sugon signed a strategic cooperation agreement to deepen collaboration on compute services, chip design, aerospace information and smart‑city initiatives. They will co‑build the National Supercomputing Wuxi Center, pursue iterative upgrades and base capacity on domestic chips and high‑speed interconnects to create an integrated supercomputing+intelligent‑computing supply system. On chip design the partners will expand IC talent training, set up key laboratories and a joint innovation center, and attract ecosystem firms to form an innovation cluster and strengthen the chip‑design industrial chain.