China is accelerating the building of a national computing-resource scheduling trunk, Shenzhen-Guizhou computing and data transmission line, to facilitate surging intelligent computing capacity and integration national computing network.
By the end of June, China’s intelligent computing capacity reached 2,185 EFLOPS, up 177 percent year on year.
With resources still unevenly distributed across regions, construction of the national integrated computing network is sped up for unified monitoring and dispatching of computing power.
At Peng Cheng Laboratory in Shenzhen, researchers are developing a new generation of optical fiber. Under a 60-power microscope, a strand no thicker than a human hair reveals four internal channels.
"This fiber is as thin as a single strand of hair. Put under a 60x microscope, you can see it actually contains four channels inside, like laying four high-speed rail lines simultaneously. That means the transmission capacity can jump more than fourfold, breaking through the volume bottleneck of conventional fiber," said Li Chao, an associate researcher of Peng Cheng Laboratory.
Using the new fiber and equipment, the research team will build the Shenzhen-Guizhou Line into a thousand-kilometer-long, ultra-broadband national computing dispatch corridor linking Shenzhen and Guizhou via low-latency, optical direct connection, enabling computing power to flow faster between computing hubs and AI application clusters.
China accelerates construction of computing power network
Russian political experts said the upcoming talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine amount to technical consultations, with almost no room for negotiation on core issues, making major breakthroughs unlikely.
The trilateral talks on the Ukraine issue will be held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, from Tuesday to Wednesday. Security guarantees for the parties, confidence-building measures and humanitarian efforts are among the topics for discussion.
"These are consultations, not negotiations. Discussions are underway on important, but in principle, technical questions. That is, they will not talk about territories, they will not talk about the nature of the regime, they will not talk about Ukraine's internal rules regarding language and Russian culture," said Dmitry Trenin, chairman of the Russian International Affairs Council.
"In my view, the Ukrainian side is not independent. The shadow of the European Union is always looming there. And in current conditions, the Europeans, by and large, do not want to make concessions to Russia," said Andrey Sidorov, associate professor at the History Department of Moscow State University.
Russian President Vladimir Putin set out Moscow's position at a meeting with the Foreign Ministry leadership in June 2024, saying Russia would declare a ceasefire and begin talks as soon as Ukrainian forces withdraw from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions and Kiev announces it will not join NATO.
"When our president articulated these demands, a corresponding caveat was made - that if you do not meet us halfway now, our positions may harden according to the real situation on the ground. And Ukraine and the West are letting the time slip away," said Andrey Koshkin, head of the Department of Political Analysis and Socio-Psychological Processes at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
Ahead of the Abu Dhabi talks, a humanitarian operation was carried out in the city of Oleshky in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, evacuating hundreds of civilians to safe locations.
According to Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Russia prioritizes achieving its goals by peaceful means. On Friday, Putin also invited members of the Russian negotiation team to a meeting with Federal Security Council members to discuss the upcoming trilateral talks.
"It can be said with certainty that we will definitely not compromise on territories. But for everything else -- the size of the Ukrainian army, the security zone, security guarantees for Ukraine from the West, they can be discussed," said Konstantin Blokhin, a leading researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Russian experts expect little breakthrough from Russia-U.S.-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi
