On September 23, at the Fifth Forum on Digital Trade and Rule of Law, the Institute of Policy and Economics of CAICT released the Annual Observation Report on Global Digital Economic and Trade Rules (2026). The report said global trade in AI-related products reached $4.18 trillion in 2025, up 21.9% year on year, contributing 42% of the total growth in global trade, and highlighted new risks such as data security and technological sovereignty from model training and API calls, as well as fragmented rule-making.