On 26 August 2026, part of a mountain in the Himalayas began to move. High on Langtang Lirung near the Nepal,Tibet border, an enormous mass of glacier ice and rock broke away and plunged more than a thousand metres into the valley below. The force was so great that the event was initially mistaken by some for an earthquake.

At the 13th International Conference of IPP, Edward Yau, former Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, delivered a keynote speech, in which he focused on the real predicaments and future way forward of APEC.

Based on currently verifiable materials, there is indeed a phenomenon in the Japanese cyberspace where generative AI is being used to mass-produce anti-China, xenophobic and even historically revisionist content.