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Macroscope
Technology
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AI pessimism is a luxury the Global South cannot afford
Young, developing states must ride the tech waves if they don’t want to fall further behind and learn from others’ mistakes.
12 Apr 2026 - 4:30PM
Banking & finance
Macroscope
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Can World Bank and IMF leaders rescue a global economy on the brink?
11 Apr 2026 - 4:30PM
Artificial intelligence
Opinion
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Despite its hype, AI is just a means to economic resilience
10 Apr 2026 - 8:30PM
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Apple
Outside In
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My love-hate relationship with Apple as an Android user
As Apple marks 50 years amid market and political pressures, the company has inspired jealousy but also admiration for what it has achieved.
10 Apr 2026 - 4:30PM
Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York, US, on June 16, 2020. Photo: AP
US-China relations
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A stark clash of world views will overshadow Trump’s visit to China
As Xi and Trump prepare to meet, the divergence between their visions of global order has never been more acute.
10 Apr 2026 - 10:29AM
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China economy
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Why Latin America is becoming indispensable to China
Latin America fits Beijing’s need for alternative partners with uncomfortable precision. That is a problem for Washington.
10 Apr 2026 - 9:18AM
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War and conflict
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For Asia, US-Iran ceasefire offers little relief – and much uncertainty
What may be coming is neither stable peace nor uninterrupted war, but something in between: a prolonged condition of managed instability.
9 Apr 2026 - 10:30PM
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Demonstrators against military action in Iran after US President Donald Trump said he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, outside the White House in Washington on April 7. Photo: Reuters
India
Opinion
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Asia’s flood of cheap Ozempic generics opens gates to weight-loss abuse
Cheaper semaglutides as patent ends is good news for diabetics. But lax regulation also means a risk of abuse by those desperate to lose weight.
9 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM
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Africa
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Beijing’s supply-chain hedging strategy can help African food security
While governments must avoid swapping one dependency for another, Beijing’s inroads could help enhance food security efforts.
8 Apr 2026 - 9:55PM
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Artificial intelligence
Opinion
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How AI and geopolitical rivalry are breaking economic orthodoxy
Today’s imbalances go beyond exchange rates; they reflect concentrated technological investment in one economy and uneven risks in others.
8 Apr 2026 - 4:30PM
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Cambodia
Opinion
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To beat Cambodia’s scam gangs, US must work with China – not blame it
Taking down the deeply rooted, well-connected syndicates would require both Washington’s economic leverage and Beijing’s operational efforts.
8 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM
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War and conflict
As I see it
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Why Donald Trump now needs a ‘forever war’
The US president and America are starting to understand you can’t go fascist at home and imperialist abroad halfway.
7 Apr 2026 - 8:30PM
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Middle East
Opinion
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For Gulf states, geography is both a generous and treacherous patron
Sandwiched between Iran and Israel, oil-rich transport hubs like the UAE now face the fragility of their newly built economic prosperity.
7 Apr 2026 - 4:30PM
Technology
Opinion
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In Asia-Pacific, the real maritime contest is over satellite surveillance
States’ ability to exercise territorial rights is increasingly mediated by their access to satellite data and analytics, but the tech is dominated by a powerful few.
7 Apr 2026 - 9:30AM
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Technology
Opinion
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The danger in the Global South’s pursuit of AI as a magical cure
Rushing in without local R&D, literacy or governance risks leaving countries as testing grounds and passive consumers of foreign tech.
7 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM
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A woman takes an iris scan to link her Aadhar card with the National Register of Citizens at a passport service centre in Barpeta district in India’s north-eastern state of Assam in 2019. Without data governance mechanisms, Global South data could end up being extracted and monetised by foreign platforms for their own gains. Photo: AFP
Nato
Opinion
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In denying Trump airspace, Europe has drawn a line for Nato
Growing European defiance to US demands raises a critical question: is Nato a club of equals or a mechanism for enforcing one nation’s agenda?
7 Apr 2026 - 8:07PM
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Global South
Opinion
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Global South nations are insulating themselves from the heat of US actions
The ‘Great Insulation’ is coming – not major powers decoupling top-down but small and middle powers building a firewall from the bottom up.
6 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM
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United States
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Fixing US branding woes starts with rebuilding trust Trump has damaged
Lavishly funded celebrations will not fly in Asian countries struggling to get by and increasingly sceptical of Trump’s America.
5 Apr 2026 - 6:26PM
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A driver pushes his auto rickshaw to get compressed natural gas at a filling station in Peshawar, Pakistan, as the government reduces the station’s working hours to save energy on March 18. Photo: AP
China-Africa relations
Opinion
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China’s growing North Africa presence a structural challenge for Europe
Cooperate or hedge? Growing Chinese energy, infrastructure and industrial investments require a sustained, coordinated European response.
5 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM
US, Israel war on Iran
Macroscope
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Why dollar and gold prices are looking abnormal amid Iran war
Two apparent anomalies stand out in recent market movements – the rising dollar and falling gold prices.
4 Apr 2026 - 5:25PM
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Chinese overseas
Being Chinese
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Chinese overseas need not keep to ourselves. I certainly don’t
Half of my close friends in London are Chinese; the other half are not. This balance did not happen by accident.
4 Apr 2026 - 9:30AM
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US, Israel war on Iran
As I see it
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The twilight of US hegemony and Israeli expansionism
The war in Iran is speeding the world towards a multipolar system.
4 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM
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Protesters gather in Washington on March 28 to join a massive “No Kings” demonstration against Donald Trump amid opposition to the US president’s decision to go to war against Iran. Photo: Reuters
Diplomacy
Opinion
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How America’s stumble in Iran upends East Asia’s security calculus
A region where US allies lose faith in Washington won’t necessarily embrace Beijing; it is a region more likely to reach for its own guns.
3 Apr 2026 - 9:21PM
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Banking & finance
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From the US to Hong Kong, there’s no excuse for insider trading
Far from a victimless crime, insider trading steals from the rest of us by unfairly using knowledge that is available only to the privileged.
3 Apr 2026 - 5:30AM
War and conflict
Opinion
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Iran war is changing East Asia’s energy and strategic plays
States like China and Russia that can provide energy, industrial inputs, strategic reassurance or room for manoeuvre are gaining weight.
2 Apr 2026 - 9:44PM
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