ZELENSKIY said he spoke with the head of the SBU.

On the afternoon of Sept. 4, China's Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Colonel Jiang Bin said recent Taiwanese defense reports exaggerate a "mainland threat" and serve as an excuse for the Democratic Progressive Party to stoke war anxiety. He reiterated that the PLA routinely conducts ships-and-aircraft combat-readiness patrols around Taiwan to carry out anti-secession and anti-interference operations to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and warned any attempt to pursue independence by force would fail.

On Sept. 4, 2026 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the provincial Quality Month launch and the 9th G60 SciTech Corridor Quality Standards Conference published the G60 Cities Embodied Intelligence Industry Quality Standards Collaborative Initiative and the 2025 G60 SciTech Corridor Quality Standards Evaluation Index System research report. The initiative mandates a quality‑first approach, coordinated construction of a standards system to open industry collaboration interfaces, and collaborative data governance to solidify foundations for intelligent model training. It urges enterprises to participate actively in national and industry standard‑setting and to advance coordinated standards across basic/common elements, core technologies, components/modules, complete systems and industry applications.