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China manufacturing
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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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US-China relations
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The US-China relationship has stabilised but on Beijing’s terms
28 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
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United States
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How Beijing is neutralising Washington’s sanctions machine
27 Sep 2026 - 8:30PM
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Diplomacy
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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.
27 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
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China-Asean relations
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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.
26 Sep 2026 - 4:30PM
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US Open (tennis)
Being Chinese
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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.
26 Sep 2026 - 9:30AM
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US-China relations
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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.
26 Sep 2026 - 7:51AM
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump concluded a three-day summit on Friday. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
US-China relations
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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.
26 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
Asean
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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.
25 Sep 2026 - 8:30PM
Asean
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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.
25 Sep 2026 - 4:30PM
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China trade
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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.
25 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
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The workshop of a wind power equipment maker at the China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park in Qinzhou city, Guangxi autonomous region, on September 4. China’s partners must distinguish between genuine imbalances and the productive advantages that offer opportunities for cooperation. Photo: Xinhua
Banking & finance
Macroscope
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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.
24 Sep 2026 - 4:30PM
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China economy
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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.
24 Sep 2026 - 10:20AM
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Chinese diaspora
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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.
24 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
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Taiwan
As I see it
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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.
23 Sep 2026 - 9:30AM
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A mannequin points a model gun from inside a bunker past Shihyu, towards the skyline of Xiamen, a coastal city in mainland China, in Lieyu, Kinmen, Taiwan, in 2021. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations
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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.
22 Sep 2026 - 8:30PM
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US-China relations
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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.
22 Sep 2026 - 1:30PM
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China-North Korea relations
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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.
20 Sep 2026 - 8:30PM
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Diplomacy
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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.
20 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
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Chinese culture
Being Chinese
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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.
19 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
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Hong Kong’s first 5-year plan
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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.
18 Sep 2026 - 10:05AM
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2026 China-Nepal flash floods
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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.
18 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
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A man sits on the balcony of a sludge-ridden house in Nepal’s Nuwakot district on September 8. The August 26 glacial and mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border killed at least 1,398 people, with more than 5,500 missing, including around 800 foreigners. Photo: AFP
China society
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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.
17 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM
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China manufacturing
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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.
16 Sep 2026 - 5:55PM
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Asean
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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.
16 Sep 2026 - 10:29AM
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