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Can China and India turn tactical calm into strategic moderation?
Whether India and China decide to institutionalise caution instead of just practising it will determine the fate of this thaw in relations.
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Does emerging markets’ stellar run this year have legs?
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Can China balance green ambition with everyday ways of life?
13 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM
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How India and the US can find their way back to better relations
This year has revealed the need for personality-driven diplomacy to be anchored by steadier institutional ballast.
13 Nov 2025 - 5:30AM
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Trump’s nuclear turn risks upsetting fragile global strategic balance
US president may have wanted to project strength, but nuclear weapons testing could further isolate America and spark a new cold war.
13 Nov 2025 - 12:02PM
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How Asean quietly became China’s buffer against US tariffs
China and Asean now have a lawful way to cushion tariffs by shifting where value is added, how it is recorded and which standards to meet.
12 Nov 2025 - 4:30PM
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East Timor’s membership marks a new chapter for Asean
Dili can bolster Asean’s diplomatic outreach and action on shared concerns, while other members can lend a hand in East Timor’s development.
12 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM
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How Russia factors into the Trump-Xi summit outcome
A limited detente with the US helps China safeguard its domestic policy goals and hedge against potential instability in Russia.
12 Nov 2025 - 6:53AM
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Carney’s Canada finally gets real about China
Under Trudeau, Canada had nasty relations with China and India. Thanks to Trump, the new Canadian administration is pivoting to Asia.
11 Nov 2025 - 8:30PM
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Busan truce foreshadows turning of tide in US-China power balance
What has become evident is that the US needs other countries to agree to its plans and help enforce them, while China is strong enough to act on its own.
11 Nov 2025 - 5:10PM
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How deeper ties with Monaco can help Hong Kong make waves
Collaboration with the principality, a magnet for millionaires, can boost Hong Kong’s blue and yacht economies and attract high-net-worth individuals.
11 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM
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Yachts are seen docked at the Monte Carlo harbour in Monaco, on May 21. Photo: AFP
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Devil in the details as US agrees to a South Korean nuclear-powered sub
Will the Australian experience be shared? Will it be a Virginia-class vessel or an indigenous design? And where will funding come from?
11 Nov 2025 - 5:30AM
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A post-Brexit Britain in decline cannot afford to alienate China
Brexit showed sentiment without strategy ends in decline. London risks a repeat by letting anti-Beijing posturing dictate policy.
10 Nov 2025 - 9:06PM
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Why Vietnam’s property sector has weathered Trump’s tariff typhoon well
Trump’s tariff blitz has not just provided an impetus for reforms, it has helped address misconceptions about Vietnam’s manufacturing sector.
10 Nov 2025 - 5:42PM
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Simplified Chinese for tests? Rigid education system needs proper reform
School’s aim to provide a ‘more friendly assessment system’ is ironic, given Hong Kong’s failure to provide an inclusive environment for ethnic minority students.
10 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM
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Shatin Government Primary School at Sun Tin Wai is seen on November 6. The government school issued a circular to parents saying pupils could use simplified characters in tests. Photo: Edmond So
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How Cop30 can advance a new template for South-South climate leadership
Proven monitoring, policy lessons and the moral weight of the Amazon venue give the Global South a rare convergence of tech capability and political urgency.
10 Nov 2025 - 5:30AM
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Is China committing ‘genocide’ by promoting tourism and development?
Much of UK media and academia have helped manufacture spurious claims about Xinjiang while denying real monstrous crimes elsewhere that many of them sponsor or otherwise justify.
10 Nov 2025 - 9:06AM
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Exports no longer enough to lift Asia out of ‘middle-income trap’
Developing nations are being urged to boost domestic demand and mutual trade to drive growth, but key factors like population ageing must also be addressed.
8 Nov 2025 - 9:15PM
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Customers flock to buy vegetarian food during the Vegetarian Festival at a market in Chinatown in Bangkok on October 21. The International Monetary Fund has projected Thailand’s economic growth forecast for 2025 at 2 per cent and expects the gross domestic product to sharply slow to 1.6 per cent for 2026. Photo: EPA
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Malaysia is not Palestine. False equivalence fuels ethnic polarisation
Such rhetoric paints Malays as the dispossessed natives of their own land and non-Malays as the occupiers.
9 Nov 2025 - 11:00AM
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Simplified Chinese for tests? Rigid education system needs proper reform
School’s aim to provide a ‘more friendly assessment system’ is ironic, given Hong Kong’s failure to provide an inclusive environment for ethnic minority students.
10 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM
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How deeper ties with Monaco can help Hong Kong make waves
Collaboration with the principality, a magnet for millionaires, can boost Hong Kong’s blue and yacht economies and attract high-net-worth individuals.
11 Nov 2025 - 9:30AM
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