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Tourists pose for a group photo at Shanghai Disneyland on June 16. Photo: Xinhua

China Opinion

Opinion | Is the Chinese dream replacing the American dream?

China appears to offer something that many young people in the West struggle to find: a functioning middle-class lifestyle.

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The View | Concern over AI’s impact on Asia’s real estate sector is misplaced

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Opinion | To boost birth rate, Hong Kong needs to deliver quality housing

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | To tackle elderly poverty crisis, Hong Kong needs to rethink retirement

With Hongkongers living longer, there is no reason they should stop working at 65 when they can still contribute to the city’s economy.

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A man prepares noodles at a restaurant in Sham Shui Po on February 2, 2025. Photo: Eugene Lee
A man prepares noodles at a restaurant in Sham Shui Po on February 2, 2025. Photo: Eugene Lee

Opinion

My Take | Greenspan helped blow up capitalism. China saved it

Long-reigning Fed chair personalised the fanaticism of a US system that triggered two worldwide economic crises.

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World Opinion

Opinion | China isn’t Europe’s real problem

Europe’s future depends less on finding new ways to constrain China than on fixing the limitations Chinese competition has exposed.

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China Opinion

Opinion | Beijing offers leverage for Africa. Policymakers are now applying it

Partnerships with China are no longer a debate for economies across the continent but a platform for their own development paths.

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An exhibitor (right) shows her bags to visitors during the fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Changsha, Hunan province, on June 13, 2025. Photo: Xinhua
An exhibitor (right) shows her bags to visitors during the fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Changsha, Hunan province, on June 13, 2025. Photo: Xinhua

Opinion

Asian Angle | Liberal Islam in Indonesia is sliding into irrelevance

Political entanglements and ideological schisms have left the pioneering Liberal Islam Network in disarray.

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Hong Kong’s AI push needs a broader vision and more realistic goals

The city is unlikely to outspend Silicon Valley or outscale Shenzhen. But it doesn’t need to.

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China Opinion

Opinion | Why China’s tech firms could be in for a rude IPO surprise

Public markets will not be swayed by a single big contract or impressive demonstration and will demand more of tech firms aiming for IPOs.

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A Unitree humanoid robot demonstrates kickboxing moves at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on June 22. Photo: Reuters

Opinion

My Take | Putting the social media genie back in the bottle will not be easy to do

The determination around the world to crack down on the use of these platforms by children is a response to the mounting evidence of the harm it can do.

Britain is eyeing measures aimed at protecting children online. Photo: Reuters
Britain is eyeing measures aimed at protecting children online. Photo: Reuters

World Opinion

Macroscope | Can Andy Burnham fix Britain’s essential services and debt problem?

The favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister is the latest figure promoting greater state control of important national assets.

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Opinion

Asian Angle | Asean’s side deals in Myanmar risk missing where the power truly lies

Trading collective leverage for isolated bargains blinds the bloc to changing realities on the ground.

China Opinion

Being Chinese | Talking when you eat is bad for you, and other Chinese beliefs

Beyond Confucian restraint and traditional medicine, my family has urgent rules for eating bony fish and steaming hot food.

A family carries on eating during a flood in Liling, Hunan province. Photo: AFP

China Opinion

Opinion | Young Americans feel more threatened by AI than young Chinese. Why?

It starts with the fundamentally different economic outlooks and job prospects for young people in China and the US.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens

China Opinion

As I see it | Europe wants a new Plaza Accord for China – seriously?

Instead of hoping for Beijing to commit economic suicide, it would be more realistic for the EU to strike a mutually acceptable trade deal.

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World Opinion

Outside In | US the ultimate loser as Iran war ushers in global power upheaval

Defeated by asymmetric warfare and spurned by allies, the US has ended up boosting China’s economy and standing instead.

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China Opinion

Being Chinese | Talking when you eat is bad for you, and other Chinese beliefs

Beyond Confucian restraint and traditional medicine, my family has urgent rules for eating bony fish and steaming hot food.

A family carries on eating during a flood in Liling, Hunan province. Photo: AFP
A family carries on eating during a flood in Liling, Hunan province. Photo: AFP

World Opinion

Macroscope | Can Andy Burnham fix Britain’s essential services and debt problem?

The favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister is the latest figure promoting greater state control of important national assets.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | To tackle elderly poverty crisis, Hong Kong needs to rethink retirement

With Hongkongers living longer, there is no reason they should stop working at 65 when they can still contribute to the city’s economy.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | To boost birth rate, Hong Kong needs to deliver quality housing

If homes remain painfully unaffordable and pitifully small, it’s very difficult to persuade couples to have children.

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A man pushes a baby in a pram in Yau Ma Tei on July 17, 2025. Photo: Jelly Tse
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OPINION
Ken Ip

Opinion | Is the Chinese dream replacing the American dream?

Ken Ip
Nicholas Spiro

The View | Concern over AI’s impact on Asia’s real estate sector is misplaced

Nicholas Spiro
Alice Wu

Opinion | To boost birth rate, Hong Kong needs to deliver quality housing

Alice Wu
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Mike Rowse

Opinion | To tackle elderly poverty crisis, Hong Kong needs to rethink retirement

Mike Rowse
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Alex Lo

My Take | Greenspan helped blow up capitalism. China saved it

Alex Lo
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Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa

Opinion | China isn’t Europe’s real problem

Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa
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MULTIMEDIA
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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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IS THIS WORLD WAR III?

United States of Israel’s war on Iran endangers the whole world
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