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Banking & finance
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Inflated asset prices show markets don’t always know best
With hyperinflated sectors across multiple asset markets, the next crash could be so severe that it prompts a restructuring of global finance.
6 Dec 2025 - 4:30PM
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War and conflict
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Welcome to a world where wars don’t end and sanctions don’t work
6 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
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Artificial intelligence
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Age of AI holds both promise and peril
5 Dec 2025 - 8:30PM
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Middle East
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Why Gulf region’s dreams of aviation domination are built on sand
While Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Istanbul’s plans are already aggressively ambitious, Saudi Arabia’s extravagant vision seems like something from fantasyland.
5 Dec 2025 - 4:30PM
A plane prepares for take-off at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 05, 2023.
India
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Not just China: India also a piece of the US opioid puzzle
Like China, India has a large pharmaceutical sector that provides precursor chemicals. But it lacks China’s drug policy control.
5 Dec 2025 - 8:16AM
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Artificial intelligence
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AI market will only have room for so many winners
There is not enough room in the market for all those raising billions to invest in AI, and there will inevitably be more losers than winners.
4 Dec 2025 - 9:10PM
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China economy
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How China engineered the rapid rise of its drug innovation industry
A market once dominated by generics is now an AI-powered pharmaceutical hub drawing billion-dollar investments from the likes of Pfizer and GSK.
4 Dec 2025 - 10:51AM
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A worker checks the position of a feeding tray in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility at the Hengrui Biomedical Industrial Park in Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, on December 13, 2021. Photo: Getty Images
US-China relations
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‘America first’ can’t mean America alone if West hopes to counter China
Keeping US allies onside means rolling back tariffs and coming up with a long-term strategy, both of which are counter to Trump’s strengths.
2 Dec 2025 - 9:30PM
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US-China relations
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Trump’s world view offers Beijing a window of opportunity on Taiwan
As the US reframes the dynamics between allies and adversaries, Beijing may see an opportunity to advance its cross-strait goals.
30 Nov 2025 - 8:30PM
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Hong Kong economy
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In betting on Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong is really betting on itself
Hong Kong’s future may lie not in choosing between East and West, but in linking Asia with the Middle East and beyond.
30 Nov 2025 - 4:30PM
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India
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If China can cut its pollution, why can’t India?
India’s pollution crisis demands sustained, year-round action, not just emergency steps that kick in when the air turns toxic.
30 Nov 2025 - 5:30AM
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People protest about a lack of action to control air pollution in New Delhi, India, on November 18. Photo: AP
Banking & finance
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Global stablecoin surge highlights overlooked risks in crypto finance
The politics around digital currencies have extended into the long-running battle for supremacy between the world’s major currencies.
29 Nov 2025 - 4:30PM
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Climate change
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How Cop30 laid bare the new geopolitics of climate action
Fractures, even among the Global South, show the energy transition is not just a technical challenge but a deeply political negotiation.
28 Nov 2025 - 8:30PM
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War and conflict
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Why advances in conventional weapons tech should worry China, Russia and US
Washington, Beijing and Moscow must realise that rapid expansion of precision non-nuclear strike capabilities does not deter war, but instead invites miscalculation.
27 Nov 2025 - 8:30PM
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Bitcoin
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Bitcoin’s bruising month shows the perils of going mainstream
Despite years of progress, the cryptocurrency is still in a vulnerable spot halfway between pure speculation and institutional adoption.
27 Nov 2025 - 4:30PM
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Eric Trump, executive vice-president of the Trump Organisation, attends the Bitcoin Asia conference, in Hong Kong, on August 29. Photo: Reuters
Science
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Simulation hypothesis is really a proof for the existence of God
While science still disagrees on whether humanity lives in a simulation, philosophy has yet to rule out a ‘cosmic host’.
26 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM
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Diplomacy
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Why next year’s G20 could be make or break for global development
As the US prepares to chair the G20, it faces a strategic choice: engage or revert to a narrower agenda.
26 Nov 2025 - 7:57AM
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European Union
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Stumbling Germany needs a clear strategy on China
Berlin must ditch the fantasy that it can profit without strategic risks, stop acting like a junior partner and decide what it stands for.
25 Nov 2025 - 8:30PM
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Friedrich Merz attends a federal executive committee meeting for the first time as German chancellor, at the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Berlin, on May 19. Photo: EPA-EFE
Nexperia
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Netherlands’ Nexperia blunder shows it has forgotten its own history
The Netherlands’ pragmatic approach – separating commercial interests from geopolitical alignment – once made it a friend to all.
25 Nov 2025 - 4:30PM
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Women and gender
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Together, we can move closer to eliminating violence against women
No jurisdiction is spared from gender-based violence. Thus international cooperation is essential to build momentum and find solutions.
25 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM
United States
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Trump can’t have it all: low prices, booming stocks, balanced trade
Trump wants to close the trade deficit while promising cheap goods and high asset prices. The cost? Devastating inflation or a market crash.
25 Nov 2025 - 5:30AM
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Climate change
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China’s quiet climate leadership offers hope for Global South and world
The Global North is failing to deliver on its climate pledges while Beijing patiently lays the groundwork for a greener future.
25 Nov 2025 - 7:44AM
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Russia
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Russia’s rare earth gamble is about killing 3 birds with 1 stone
Bogged down in Ukraine and wary of its reliance on Chinese imports, Moscow seeks to overcome the resource curse.
24 Nov 2025 - 4:30PM
United States
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How South Korea’s nuclear sub deal with US could torpedo inter-Korean peace
Seoul is clearly prioritising advancing its military capabilities with Washington’s help, rather than improving ties with Pyongyang.
24 Nov 2025 - 5:30AM
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United States
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Venezuela? Trump’s real aim could be laying claim to the western hemisphere
In the aftermath of American exceptionalism, Trump and Xi could form respective ‘greater areas’, each ordered by their own nation’s political and legal norms.
23 Nov 2025 - 8:30PM
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