Alibaba is accelerating data‑center expansion in Europe and the Middle East as part of a 20 GW global infrastructure buildout, top executive Li Feifei said at the Yunqi conference in Hangzhou on Wednesday. The company plans to open initial cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands within 12 months and will expand data‑center capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France and Hong Kong. Alibaba’s cloud footprint runs from Japan through Southeast Asia to the Middle East; it recently ope

China published draft revisions to its corporate overseas antitrust compliance guidelines for public comment, aimed at helping firms track foreign enforcement trends. The draft consolidates recent overseas antitrust legislative and enforcement changes and embeds foreign enforcers' digital‑economy focus into sections on cartels, abuse of dominance and merger control; it clarifies recent merger filing thresholds in jurisdictions including the EU, US and Germany, flags foreign investment security reviews and foreign subsidy review regimes as material risks, and—responding to rising cross‑border antitrust litigation—adds coverage of major jurisdictions' rules on private civil suits alongside administrative fines and criminal liability.

Denmark's prime minister said no decision has yet been made on what the US "Golden Dome" on Greenland will ultimately look like.