World Insight with Tian Wei

This summer, let's celebrate the season of basic science and artificial Intelligence. Tian Wei is going to bring you a series of interviews, discussions, and debates with the hope to bring more public literacy of the latest scientific development and better understanding of Al and its impact. Today we meet three Turing Award winners. The Turing Award is the highest distinction in computer science, often called the Nobel Prize of computing.

The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. The changes taking place in the US and their implications for that country and the rest of the world is significant. On that and more, Tian Wei spoke with Thomas Fingar, a professor at Stanford University, on the sideline of the World Peace Forum. America is looking back at this past and ahead to its role in the changing world. One of the most important questions is how it manages its relationship with China. Howard Kennedy School Professor Graham Allison shared his perspectives saying that the two countries have been trying to reform and reshape their relationship.

The United States celebrates 250 years of independence on Saturday. Two and a half centuries ago, the early settlers of this land broke free from the yoke of colonial rule. In the centuries that followed, waves of people of the globe arrived on these shores, their lives intertwining, their cultures colliding and ultimately fusing together on this vast new continent. Adam Tooze is a leading British historian currently teaching at Columbia University's History Department in the US. As a non-American living in the country, viewed from an international and historical vantage point, what does he make of America's 250-year history and its present-day reality?

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Earlier, a joint statement marked the official launch of the China-EU trade and investment consultation mechanism as both sides convened for the inaugural meeting. China-EU academic and trade cooperation continues to generate mutual benefits. For many European companies operating in China, close collaboration translates into significant investment in innovation. Our guests highlight how China has become a major hub for global innovation, and why long term cooperation with China is a rewarding strategy.

The Al+ Initiative is China's national action plan to drive Al into every corner of the economy. Few have witnessed this journey as closely as Feng Junlan. As the chief scientist of China Mobile, she has been working on large language models for more than 10 years. She believes Al should not be a magic box. It must be trustworthy, controllable and safe. Al building itself is a plain way to explain the phrase "recursive self-improvement," which is a process in which early artificial general intelligence, or AGI systems, rewrite their own computer code which might lead to, theoretically speaking, super intelligence. On that and more, Tian Wei spoke to computer scientist Mingcheng Zhuge, whose research focuses primarily on coding agents, recursive self-improvement, and neural computers.

Innovation-driven development is the key to China's long term economic resilience and steady growth. From Al to green energy, home-grown breakthroughs are reshaping industries and opening more possibilities. As Harvard University Professor Graham Allison notes, these Chinese innovation efforts will be translated into products that can benefit people and redefine global competition. China's pharmaceutical-biotech sector is poised for sustained growth driven by policy support, corporate R&D and talent dividends. As Eric Tse puts it, China's innovation is not just for China, it translates into global innovation that benefits the world.

APEC trade ministers have issued a joint statement upon conclusion of their meeting in Suzhou. Will it open a golden era for the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific?

Innovation-driven development is the key to China's long term economic resilience and steady growth. On the sidelines of the Summer Davos forum, Tian Wei sat down with Professor Graham Allison from Harvard University to talk about China's innovation and also China-US relations. China's pharmaceutical biotech sector is poised for sustained growth driven by policy support, corporate R&D and talent dividends. Tian Wei spoke with Eric Tse, CEO of Sino Biopharmaceutical.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday delivered a special address at the opening plenary of the Summer Davos. He said China's innovation is earned through years of strengthening its capabilities and relentless hard work. It has also been driven by widespread application across industries and cultivated through a robust ecosystem. The premier also said China opportunity 2.0 represents comprehensive innovation-driven empowerment and high return investment prospect.

The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as Summer Davos, opens this week in Dalian, China. Its goal: to answer one question - how the world closes the gap between technological breakthrough and broad economic benefit. In my exclusive interview with WEF President Alois Zwinggi, he suggests scaling innovation is the key for good quality growth. This month, China unveiled an extensive array of financial opening-up policies. In an exclusive interview, Giovanni Tria, the former Italian minister of economy and finance, explains why China's push for RMB assets is the key to a more stable global financial system.