Trump’s supporters seem certain the damage his policies cause will be short-lived, but they may change their minds as the trade wars drag on.
6 Jun 2025 - 4:30PM videocam
For every traveller open to learning from our differences, there is another impregnably confident in the superiority of his or her culture.
30 May 2025 - 4:30PM videocam
Trump’s Gulf tour and his proposed budget highlight a disproportionate US reliance on its military-industrial complex.
23 May 2025 - 9:43PM videocam
The choice of the Swiss city of Geneva for US-China negotiations was telling, and the breakthroughs achieved are only the start of a long process.
16 May 2025 - 5:04PM videocam
The US president has proposed a 100 per cent tariff on films made abroad, but this is hardly what the entertainment industry needs.
10 May 2025 - 8:17AM videocam
Companies and countries alike are seeing hedging costs hit the roof amid a loss of trust and certainty in the US, the dollar and Treasuries.
3 May 2025 - 8:50AM videocam
The centre of faith is moving away from the West, a shift that could add impetus to the late pope’s reforms.
25 Apr 2025 - 4:30PM videocam
The US president’s chaotic approach is not restricted to trade and could throw the rules-based international order into crisis.
18 Apr 2025 - 4:30PM videocam
Many Chinese cities have country-sized economies. Places some Westerners haven’t heard of would have UN seats if they were countries.
The US president cannot be allowed to replace world’s hard-won multilateral compromise and cooperation with bullying bilateralism.
4 Apr 2025 - 6:44PM videocam
Threatened with annexation, Canadians reluctant to be absorbed nevertheless find it hard to say what distinguishes them from Americans.
28 Mar 2025 - 8:30PM videocam
The countdown to April 2 begins. Amid the gargantuan complexity of tariff calculations, US clarifications only serve to obfuscate.
21 Mar 2025 - 4:30PM videocam
This unprecedented empowerment of the US ‘political donor class’ risks jeopardising the proper functioning of democracy.
Trump’s dogmatic commitment to his tariff-driven policy will force others to adapt – by reducing their reliance on, and engagement with, the US.
7 Mar 2025 - 5:15PM videocam
The city should take advantage of China’s burgeoning edge in alternative solar cell technologies to become a hub for renewables.
21 Feb 2025 - 4:30PM videocam
Chinese parcels make up two-thirds of de minimis imports exempt from customs taxes. But cost of processing would outweigh the tax collected.
14 Feb 2025 - 4:30PM videocam
Greatest harm is in the emboldening of the US fossil fuel industry and pressure on US finance giants to turn away from funding climate goals.
7 Feb 2025 - 8:30PM videocam
From trade to immigration, Trump’s agenda risks a backlash. The question is whether he sees the problem and will change tack.
31 Jan 2025 - 6:30PM videocam
Kai Tak Sports Park and West Kowloon Cultural District took over 20 years to develop and still face woes. What hope for the Northern Metropolis?
24 Jan 2025 - 6:15PM videocam
If the US wants to reassert its merits as a global hegemon, let it clarify the values of nationality that Trump’s security agenda means to protect.
17 Jan 2025 - 4:30PM videocam
The future looks dire with consumption pivoting away, especially in China and France, and grape growers worldwide hit by climate change, but the wine sector is a long-term sector.
10 Jan 2025 - 6:34PM videocam
The incoming US president has disdain for global organisations, and making good on threats to cut funding or withdraw would be disastrous.
The holidays are an ideal time to revisit Michael Pollan’s rules for food and examine how we buy and consume what we eat every day.
Much depends on how successfully Trump seduces leaders away from multilateral rule-making and how firmly China resists the siren call of bilateralism.
21 Dec 2024 - 8:05AM videocam
City’s situation is not as extreme but the private sector is out of reach for too many and wait times in the public sector can be painfully long.
13 Dec 2024 - 7:29PM videocam
The president-elect is doubling down on policies that did not serve the US well during his first term in the White House.
6 Dec 2024 - 4:30PM videocam
The collapse of a Swedish EV battery maker underscores just how much the green transition still depends on supply chains dominated by China.
29 Nov 2024 - 8:30PM videocam
Global spending on defence is rising at the expense of social needs. The ‘peace dividend’ years are over.
22 Nov 2024 - 6:07PM videocam
From G20 and Apec to the WTO and Nato, global cooperation on climate, security and open trade and investment must be quickly restored.
15 Nov 2024 - 4:30PM videocam
If the US is a bellwether for what is to become of democratic governance worldwide, then grounds for alarm are well founded.
9 Nov 2024 - 9:30AM videocam