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Iranians walk past an anti-Trump billboard on a street in Tehran on September 23. In a speech at the UN General Assembly, US President Donald Trump asked aloud whether he should “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly”. Photo: EPA
United States

My Take | How Beijing is neutralising Washington’s sanctions machine

As alternative networks like China’s CIPS gain traction, the multilateral pushback is steadily eroding US financial dominance.

Diplomacy

Opinion | How China is seeking to transform the meaning of great power

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China-Asean relations

Opinion | How Chinese firms can avoid a Europe-style backlash in Southeast Asia

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Being Chinese | What’s so Chinese about US Open tennis players like Zheng Qinwen?

From afar, Chinese tennis stars can appear as a cohort, their names accompanied by the same flag. Up close, they’re nothing like one another.

China’s Zheng Qinwen plays a match during the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre on September 7. Photo: CSM via Zuma Press Wire/dpa
China’s Zheng Qinwen plays a match during the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre on September 7. Photo: CSM via Zuma Press Wire/dpa
US-China relations

Opinion | The porcupine dilemma: why US-China diplomacy is about distance, not deals

Xi and Trump’s latest summit shows the need for cooperation even as deep differences continue to shape ties between the two powers.

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US-China relations

As I see it | China and the US can make nice, if not peace

Outright enmity is too costly for both superpowers. Even without trust, shared interests leave room for pragmatic cooperation.

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Asean

Opinion | In a US-China world, Asean must do more than avoid choosing sides

Following the uneasy truce at the Xi-Trump summit, Asean must go beyond passive hedging and forge middle-power partnerships to secure its autonomy.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Asean

Opinion | How Chinese firms can optimise their ‘going out’ strategy in Southeast Asia

While local partners gain valuable technical and marketing skills, Chinese companies must navigate vastly different regulatory and cultural landscapes to succeed.

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China trade

Opinion | China’s industrial strengths must also benefit its trading partners

By shifting towards domestic consumption and exporting industrial know-how, Beijing can give global partners a genuine stake in its growth.

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Banking & finance

Macroscope | Who has the upper hand in financial markets, the US or China?

Against the rising resilience of Chinese markets, the sharp reappraisal of US debt and dollar risks makes the answer far from clear-cut.

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A cargo ship sails along the Huangpu River in Shanghai on September 23. The last time President Xi Jinping was in the US for a state visit in September 2015, China’s markets were in turmoil. This is not the case today. Photo: AFP
China economy

Opinion | China has a much bigger priority than winning the AI race

China’s pressing economic problem is that ordinary people still have too little money in their pockets.

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Migrant workers wait to board a chartered train at Dingxi North railway station in northwest China’s Gansu province, in 2024. In 2025, China’s nearly 300 million migrant workers earned just 5,075 yuan (US$758) a month on average, up only 2.3 per cent from the previous year. Photo: Xinhua
Migrant workers wait to board a chartered train at Dingxi North railway station in northwest China’s Gansu province, in 2024. In 2025, China’s nearly 300 million migrant workers earned just 5,075 yuan (US$758) a month on average, up only 2.3 per cent from the previous year. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese diaspora

Opinion | China is leveraging its diaspora to boost the economy, unlike India

While Beijing has turned its diaspora into an extension of its domestic economy, New Delhi has largely allowed its diaspora to strengthen other economies.

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Taiwan

As I see it | Taiwan might as well give up now

If Washington can’t or won’t defend the island, Taipei has no choice but to settle with Beijing.

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US-China relations

Opinion | Xi and Trump face their greatest challenge yet: building US-China trust

AI is the test case. A foundational agreement will prove trust is possible – otherwise, mistrust will harden and the detente will dissolve.

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US-China relations

Opinion | Success of Xi-Trump summit lies in what happens afterwards

The real value of the Washington meeting between the presidents of the US and China is whether its understandings survive the next bilateral dispute.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
China-North Korea relations

Opinion | New North Korea-Russia bridge delivers a powerful message to China

The Yalu bridge remains unused years after completion – a reminder that despite economic reliance on Beijing, Pyongyang still decides where to invest its political attention.

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Diplomacy

Opinion | What China really means when it says it’s being ‘strategic’

Rather than geopolitical manoeuvring or calculation, this diplomatic label aims to convey seriousness, patience and a willingness to work for mutual long-term benefit.

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Chinese culture

Being Chinese | The unspoken reason my Chinese friends choose America

When friends say they can just ‘exist’ in the US, they mean they can stop performing to the Confucian expectations that define Chinese life.

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A noodle restaurant along a largely deserted pavement in Arcadia, California. Outside the Confucian system, there is no perpetual appraisal of your earning power, your waistline or your marital status. Photo: Getty Images via AFP
A noodle restaurant along a largely deserted pavement in Arcadia, California. Outside the Confucian system, there is no perpetual appraisal of your earning power, your waistline or your marital status. Photo: Getty Images via AFP
Hong Kong’s first 5-year plan

Opinion | Experimentation drives the Northern Metropolis – just as it did Shenzhen

As the flagship project of Hong Kong’s five-year plan, the cross-border hub is built to function as a sandbox – a special zone for bold policy and economic innovation.

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2026 China-Nepal flash floods

Opinion | What the China-Nepal floods teach us about crisis communication

In an unfolding disaster, families need quick, practical updates and journalists need access the moment safety allows.

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China society

Opinion | Why women in China are still at risk of abduction and forced marriage

The latest incident has exposed many failings in local authorities’ work in a country where a mindset of favouring sons over daughters still exists.

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A wedding takes place in Kaizhou city, Chongqing, in 2014. As long as a preference for sons exists, daughters will continue to be seen as good for little more than marrying a man and bearing his children. Photo: Shutterstock
China manufacturing

Opinion | Why more export controls won’t stop China’s industrial engine

Beyond cutting-edge tech, Beijing’s true manufacturing strength lies in its unmatched ability to scale the mature technologies that drive the modern economy.

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Illustration: Mario Cameira
Illustration: Mario Cameira
Asean

Opinion | As the global order fragments, at least Asean is still talking

A modest lesson in a multipolar world is that sometimes the achievement is simply that disagreement does not end the conversation.

United States

Opinion | The world is not so much embracing China as recoiling from Trump’s US

The US is haemorrhaging goodwill around the world, but China will have to build up its own trustworthiness and credibility to win hearts and minds.

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China economy

Opinion | Western businesses need to crack the new CIA: China, India and Asean

The businesses that adapt early to engage China, India and Asean will help draft Asia’s next chapter and profit from it.

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The Huaihai Road commercial district in Shanghai, China, seen on March 6. Photo: AFP
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