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A woman walks past a money exchange shop decorated with banknotes from different countries in Central, Hong Kong, in 2019. Financial de-dollarisation may be less about the end of dollar dominance than about the gradual expansion of choice around it. Photo: AP

Asia Opinion

Opinion | Saudi Arabia’s mBridge exit shows the limits of financial de-dollarisation

Riyadh’s choice is practical, not ideological. Countries seeking payment diversification aren’t abandoning the dollar – they want efficient, cost-effective alternatives.

Opinion | Raising Hong Kong’s birth rate is an economic imperative

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Opinion | America’s foreign policy of coercion must end

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China Opinion

Opinion | What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable

The Thucydides Trap that has dominated debate for a decade is a poor fit for reality. Beijing and Washington are both showing they can share the stage without drifting into war.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Illustration: Henry Wong

World Opinion

As I see it | It’s the end of the world – and I don’t feel fine

Three authors warn that America’s techno-fascists are about to bring on the apocalypse for all of us.

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China Opinion

Opinion | How China’s new Pinglu Canal will transform Asia

The game-changing canal is a physical response to an economic reality: Asia’s growth is becoming more regional and more connected.

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China Opinion

Opinion | In the US-China AI race, the real fight is keeping humans in control

A crisis hotline is a start, but the deeper task is setting clear boundaries between human authority and machine autonomy – while we still hold the reins.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

China Opinion

Opinion | China is no longer just the world’s factory. It’s the HQ

Manufacturing capacity is moving overseas but China, as a global hub for innovation and development, remains the ‘industrial brain’.

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Other Sport

Opinion | The worst Asian Games ever? Japan has failed to raise the bar in Nagoya

Three years on from a celebrated edition in Hangzhou, athletes have been left bemoaning a ‘sad and mediocre’ experience.

Asia Opinion

The View | How transparency drives property investment in Hong Kong and mainland China

As investors pile into alternative property sectors and seek more exposure to listed real estate, transparency becomes more important.

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People visit an Apple store in a mall in Beijing on September 23. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | How Hong Kong is trying a new solution to its land value problem

After decades of lucrative land sales, can the city finally build a system in which the land itself creates economic value?

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Village houses at Yau Kom Tau, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, in 2023. Since the colonial era, restrictions on land supply and the sale of development rights have generated substantial government revenue. Photo: Dickson Lee
Village houses at Yau Kom Tau, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, in 2023. Since the colonial era, restrictions on land supply and the sale of development rights have generated substantial government revenue. Photo: Dickson Lee

China Opinion

Opinion | The US-China relationship has stabilised but on Beijing’s terms

Managed rivalry is not peace; it is a rules-based pause with China largely writing the rules. The test is whether the US can live with it.

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China Opinion

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.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | A Hong Kong professor’s sexist views have been laid bare. That’s good

Students speaking up against an academic’s reductionist analysis of love and marriage is a welcome sight – better yet if it sparks a broader, needed debate.

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Chinese University associate professor Terence Chong advised young women not to pursue a PhD, and instead invest in their looks, in a talk at a university event last week. Photo: Jelly Tse

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | To understand where Hong Kong is going, start with Tung Chee-hwa

To understand Tung is to understand the historical moment in which he stood; Hong Kong’s post-1997 journey started there.

A painting by Chow Chun-fai depicts the iconic scene of the handover, at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2025. Photo: Eugene Lee
A painting by Chow Chun-fai depicts the iconic scene of the handover, at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2025. Photo: Eugene Lee

China Opinion

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

By promoting a more just world order, Beijing hopes to exercise influence without making domination the organising principle of international relations.

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Asia Opinion

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

If Beijing’s tech expansion ends up undercutting local economies, Asean partners will soon ask whose prosperity it actually serves.

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China Opinion

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

Asia Opinion

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

If Beijing’s tech expansion ends up undercutting local economies, Asean partners will soon ask whose prosperity it actually serves.

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Asia Opinion

The View | How transparency drives property investment in Hong Kong and mainland China

As investors pile into alternative property sectors and seek more exposure to listed real estate, transparency becomes more important.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | A Hong Kong professor’s sexist views have been laid bare. That’s good

Students speaking up against an academic’s reductionist analysis of love and marriage is a welcome sight – better yet if it sparks a broader, needed debate.

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Chinese University associate professor Terence Chong advised young women not to pursue a PhD, and instead invest in their looks, in a talk at a university event last week. Photo: Jelly Tse
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OPINION
Matteo Giovannini

Opinion | Saudi Arabia’s mBridge exit shows the limits of financial de-dollarisation

Matteo Giovannini
James Liang

Opinion | Raising Hong Kong’s birth rate is an economic imperative

James Liang
Zhou Xiaoming

Opinion | America’s foreign policy of coercion must end

Zhou Xiaoming
Wang Wen

Opinion | What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable

Wang Wen
Alex Lo

As I see it | It’s the end of the world – and I don’t feel fine

Alex Lo
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Daryl Ng

Opinion | How China’s new Pinglu Canal will transform Asia

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

SCMP managing editor Yonden Lhatoo sings a totally different tune to wish America a happy 250th anniversary.
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HELP, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE

US-Israel war on Iran is as reckless and catastrophic as it is stupid and illegal
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THEY WON’T EVEN LET US MOURN IN PEACE!

Yonden Lhatoo has a go at those who are politicising Hong Kong’s fire tragedy
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Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon

Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon in Hong Kong
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