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A |     Opposition politicians, journalists and many renowned Indian personalities have condemned the arrest of journalist Mohammad Zubair and have slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi.,Zubair was arrested on Monday night for a tweet on charges of hurting religious sentiments for a tweet that he posted in 2018.,A senior Delhi Police officer said the tweet purportedly showed an image of a hotel, with its sign reading 'Honeymoon hotel' repainted to 'Hanuman (Indian god) hotel'.,A complainant posted a screenshot, tagged Delhi Police, and wrote: "Linking our God Hanuman ji with honeymoon is a direct insult of Hindus. Kindly take action against this guy @delhipolice.",However, a Twitter user, @squaregas, has said that the image used by Zubair is a screenshot from the 1983 Bollywood movie – Kissi Se Na Kehna, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. India's censorship board cleared it and the movie was shown a number of times on television and no objection was ever made.,The image was also used by Indian Express daily's website in 2018. But even at that time, it received no particular attention.,Meanwhile, opposition parties, including Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Samajwadi Party, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and left parties, criticized BJP government for clamping down on those who "expose its hate, bigotry and lies.","India's few fact-checking services, especially Alt News, perform a vital service in our post-truth political environment, rife with disinformation. They debunk falsehoods, whoever perpetrates them. To arrest Mohammed Zubair is an assault on the truth. He should be released immediately," Senior Congress Parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor tweeted minutes after the police arrested Zubair.,TMC parliamentarian Derek O'Brien called Zubair "one of the world's finest journalists who exposes BJP's fake news factory" every day.,AIMIM leader and Muslim parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi said Zubair's arrest is highly condemnable.,Meanwhile, Steven Butler, Asia program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), said Zubair's arrest "marks another low for press freedom in India".,"Zubair, who routinely busted fake news, exposed the hate machinery in India, has just been arrested," said Rana Ayyub, a Muslim journalist tweeted.,DIGIPUB News India Foundation, a network of digital media organizations, in a tweet condemned the arrest of Zubair and said that the use of "stringent" laws as tools against journalists must stop.,It stated, “…Zubair had previously been booked by Uttar Pradesh Police for calling three Hindutva supremacists ‘hatemongers’ in a tweet. This is not the first time he is being subject to legal harassment. This is the sixth FIR filed against Zubair over the last two years…”,Meanwhile, the BJP so far has offered no official statement but BJP General Secretary C. T. Ravi has called Zubair "Zihadi (Islamic militant)" and hit back at Congress.,Meanwhile, another BJP General Secretary B. L. Santhosh said Congress has no moral right to speak over Zubair's arrest.,"Those who were conveniently silent on month long arrest of #KetakiChitale have neither moral nor legal rights to condemn #zubair arrest. Your selectiveness robs you off any small window you had. Sleep peacefully.",Marathi actor Ketaki Chitale was arrested last month for allegedly sharing a defamatory post against Maharashtra Congress' alliance partner Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. Last week she was granted bail, She is facing a total of 22 First Information Reports (FIRs) lodged at various districts in Maharashtra.,Want to know more? Check out our Koo & Telegram accounts!,Koo: https://www.kooapp.com/profile/sputniknews,Sputnik India: https://t.me/sputniknewsindia。    

    Workers produce electronic components for exports at a factory in Xinle, North China's Hebei Province, on June 16, 2026. Photo: VCG
China's exports of integrated circuits (ICs) reached $216.02 billion in the first seven months of 2026, up 99.5 percent year-on-year, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs (GAC) on Friday. 
Chinese experts said that rising global artificial intelligence (AI) demand is a factor, but the main drivers of the leap in chip exports are the country's technological breakthroughs and upgraded industrial chain.
The robust growth in IC exports also came as China's overall foreign trade saw stable expansion. According to data released by the GAC, the sound upward trend in China's foreign trade continued in July, with growth of 19.2 percent year-on-year to reach 4.66 trillion yuan ($686.26 billion), remaining above 4 trillion yuan for the fifth consecutive month. 
In the first seven months of the year, total foreign trade in goods amounted to 30.13 trillion yuan, up 17.3 percent year-on-year, the data showed.
"Since the start of this year, China's economy has forged ahead against headwinds and moved toward innovation-driven, higher-quality development, providing strong underpinning for the growth of foreign trade," said Lü Daliang, an official with the GAC.
According to the GAC, China's exports of electromechanical products reached 11.12 trillion yuan between January and July, up 21.2 percent year-on-year. They accounted for 63.8 percent of the country's total exports, up 3.8 percentage points on a yearly basis.
There was notable progress in green and low-carbon products, with exports of electric vehicles (EVs) and lithium batteries rising by 71.2 percent and 35.8 percent, respectively, while exports of 3D printers soared by 110 percent, with industrial robots jumping 13.2 percent and ships 32.7 percent.
"The surge in China's chip exports reflects breakthroughs in multiple aspects," Fu Liang, a Beijing-based tech analyst, told the Global Times on Friday. Fu pointed to a rise in mature-node capacity, industrial and supply chain resilience, and scale production advantages of Chinese companies.
As demand for chips in automotive electronics, industrial control systems, and household appliances keeps rising, China-made mature-process chips - backed by reliable supply capability and strong cost-performance - have become an indispensable link in the global supply chain, Fu said.
Meanwhile, there has been an upgrade in China's chipmaking industry, such as the new chip design approach at Huawei based on the company's Tau Scaling Law, and the international competitiveness of China-made chips is expected to increase, supporting further growth in exports, the expert noted.
China recently issued a revised regulation on protection of IC layout-designs. Scheduled to take effect on October 15 this year, the regulation aims to strengthen the protection and application of layout-designs, and improve registration and management systems by elevating proven practices into regulations, while also aligning with relevant laws and international treaties.
These institutional upgrades are unfolding alongside broader efforts to expand domestic demand and open the Chinese market wider to the world. China has also accelerated imports in the first seven months of this year to promote a more balanced development of foreign trade. China has remained the world's second-largest import market for 17 consecutive years. In the first seven months of 2026, China's import growth outpaced export growth by 8 percentage points, according to the GAC. 
In addition, China's imports and exports with over 180 countries and regions registered growth over the period. Specifically, the country's trade with ASEAN, the EU, Latin America, and Africa rose by 20 percent, 9.5 percent, 15.4 percent, and 18.9 percent year-on-year, respectively. Trade with the US, however, fell by 1.6 percent, with the decline narrowing by 2 percentage points compared with the first half of the year, according to the GAC.
Amid a complex external environment, China has leveraged its complete industrial chain to accelerate trade structure upgrading, driving brisk growth in both imports and exports, Wen Bin, chief economist of China Minsheng Bank, told the Global Times.
Although China's foreign trade sector still faces pressure in the second half of the year, Wen said the same fundamentals are still supporting China's export growth: the competitiveness of China's "new new three" products, the ongoing AI investment cycle, plus a raft of domestic risk-mitigation policies covering forex, fiscal and customs.
"China's export sector is projected to hold onto double-digit growth in the second half of the year," he said.
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