Chinese-made MG ZS vehicles, produced by SAIC Motor, are parked at a vehicle storage yard awaiting shipment for export in Yantai, in eastern China's Shandong province, on August 31, 2026. (Photo by CN-STR / AFP via Getty Images) / China OUT

Chinese-made MG ZS vehicles, produced by SAIC Motor, are parked at a vehicle storage yard awaiting shipment for export in Yantai, in eastern China's Shandong province, on August 31, 2026. (Photo by CN-STR / AFP via Getty Images) / China OUT

A vendor weaves a shawl at her tourist gift shop along a street in Thimphu, Bhutan on August 30, 2026. (Photo by Niharika KULKARNI / AFP via Getty Images)

This picture taken from Azabudai Hills on August 28, 2026 shows the Tokyo Tower and the city skyline in Tokyo. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP via Getty Images)

A woman inspects machinery at a business affected by power outages that local residents attribute to the nearby Ascenty and Microsoft data centers in the town of Colon, Queretaro state, Mexico, on July 29, 2026. Data centers are growing rapidly in Mexico, but the next stepgenerating or storing artificial intelligenceruns up against an electrical grid that is already operating at its limit. (Photo by Cesar Gomez / AFP via Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - This photo taken on July 27, 2026 shows a worker making a guitar at a guitar workshop in Zheng'an, in southwestern China's Guizhou Province. The town of Zheng'an in the southwest province of Guizhou produces one in every seven of the instruments sold worldwide -- but a decade ago, it had no guitar-making industry to speak of at all. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story 'China-Economy-Trade-Manufacturing-Music', Reportage by Rita QIAN

TOPSHOT - This photo taken on July 27, 2026 shows an employee working on a guitar production line at a factory of Shenqu musical instrument manufacturer in Zheng'an, in southwestern China's Guizhou Province. The town of Zheng'an in the southwest province of Guizhou produces one in every seven of the instruments sold worldwide -- but a decade ago, it had no guitar-making industry to speak of at all. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story 'China-Economy-Trade-Manufacturing-Music', Reportage by Rita QIAN

This photo taken on July 26, 2026 shows people sitting next to statues of cartoon guitar characters at the Guitar Cultural Plaza in Zheng'an, in southwestern China's Guizhou Province. The town of Zheng'an in the southwest province of Guizhou produces one in every seven of the instruments sold worldwide -- but a decade ago, it had no guitar-making industry to speak of at all. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story 'China-Economy-Trade-Manufacturing-Music', Reportage by Rita QIAN