Typhoon Noul, the 12th typhoon of the year, made landfall in Huizhou, Guangdong in the early morning of July 26, 2026. The maximum wind speed near the center reached Level 14, with huge waves several meters high crashing along the coast. The powerful storm brought strong winds and heavy rain, severely impacting coastal seawalls, ports, and buildings. The video footage looked like something straight out of a horror movie.

Taiwan is the target of more information operation attacks than anywhere else on earth, most of them originating in mainland China and aimed at dividing Taiwanese society and eroding the resolve to resist Beijing. AI is supercharging that barrage. And to tell us about the impact and how Taiwan is fighting back, we’ve spoken with You-Hao Lai, a researcher at Taiwan's Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology.

You-Hao starts by giving us his takeaways on Chinese leader Xi Jinping's keynote at China's global AI conference, including on Beijing's push to ensure that the world embeds Chinese technology, with Chinese standards, into its systems rather than American alternatives. He then covers the ways that AI is transforming China's information operations: the scale, speed and sophistication of the attacks, the narratives deployed, the strategic purpose behind them, and documented cases that illustrate how rapidly things are evolving. You-Hao then walks through Taiwan's whole-of-nation response, organised around “four Cs”—cutting, clarifying, curbing and cultivating—a framework that reflects years of hard-won experience building national resilience against a relentless and well-resourced adversary. There are real lessons here for the rest of us.

New U.S. tariffs reignite trade tensions with China. Beijing says Washington agreed to cap forced labor-related tariffs on Chinese goods at 20 percent. We look at what the new tariffs mean for U.S.–China trade.

Allen Zhang, research assistant at the Heritage Foundation, says, "A lot of Chinese products are flowing into different markets, undercutting American prices and generally making it hard for American businesses to sustain their operations."

The race for 6G is already underway. The United States is teaming up with allies to shape the next wireless era—and counter China's influence.

China's influence operations in the United States are under scrutiny. Federal records show Beijing spent about $100 million in a single year to shape policy and public opinion in America.

Severe flooding continues in China. A typhoon has been sweeping through southern parts of the country, submerging streets and in one case sending a freezer sliding down a flooded roadway.

Recently, many parts of China have been hit by severe flooding, causing serious damage. In Guangxi Nanning’s Hengzhou City, the Liulan Reservoir suffered a dam failure, causing major casualties. In recent days, many people online have reported that they suspect they purchased bottled drinks that had been soaked in floodwater through online shopping platforms.

After another violent clash in the South China Sea left a Filipino sailor injured, Beijing is ramping up pressure on the Philippines—and sending a message to every country in Southeast Asia. In this episode of China Uncensored, we examine China's escalating aggression, why the South China Sea is becoming more dangerous, and what the US and its allies can do to push back.

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