Chinese President Xi Jinping used a visit to Shanghai on Tuesday to push for breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and underscore China’s leading role in the "Global South".

China is reportedly conducting a global diplomatic campaign to oppose President Donald Trump’s new trade deals with US allies. According to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, Beijing is trying to reframe itself as a global rules-based order defender and make other countries see Washington as an unreliable trading partner.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has once again made his stance clear on the growing trade tensions shaking the global economy.During a meeting in Beijing with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on April 23,