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An AI billboard at the Chinese International Supply Chain Expo on June 26 in Beijing, China. Rather than abandon its role as the “world’s factory”, China is becoming a global hub for industrial innovation and development. Photo: Getty Images

China Opinion

Opinion | 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’.

28 Sep 2026 - 8:30PMvideocam

Opinion | The worst Asian Games ever? Japan has failed to raise the bar in Nagoya

28 Sep 2026 - 6:36PM

The View | How transparency drives property investment in Hong Kong and mainland China

28 Sep 2026 - 6:29PMvideocam

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | How Hong Kong is trying a new solution to its land value problem

After decades of lucrative land sales, can the city finally build a system in which the land itself creates economic value?

28 Sep 2026 - 9:30AMvideocam

Village houses at Yau Kom Tau, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, in 2023. Since the colonial era, restrictions on land supply and the sale of development rights have generated substantial government revenue. Photo: Dickson Lee

China Opinion

Opinion | The US-China relationship has stabilised but on Beijing’s terms

Managed rivalry is not peace; it is a rules-based pause with China largely writing the rules. The test is whether the US can live with it.

28 Sep 2026 - 5:30AMvideocam

China Opinion

My Take | How Beijing is neutralising Washington’s sanctions machine

As alternative networks like China’s CIPS gain traction, the multilateral pushback is steadily eroding US financial dominance.

27 Sep 2026 - 8:30PM

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | A Hong Kong professor’s sexist views have been laid bare. That’s good

Students speaking up against an academic’s reductionist analysis of love and marriage is a welcome sight – better yet if it sparks a broader, needed debate.

27 Sep 2026 - 4:30PM

Chinese University associate professor Terence Chong advised young women not to pursue a PhD, and instead invest in their looks, in a talk at a university event last week. Photo: Jelly Tse

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | To understand where Hong Kong is going, start with Tung Chee-hwa

To understand Tung is to understand the historical moment in which he stood; Hong Kong’s post-1997 journey started there.

27 Sep 2026 - 9:30AM

China Opinion

Opinion | 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 - 5:30AMvideocam

Asia Opinion

Opinion | 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 - 4:30PMvideocam

Visitors watching Mornine, a Chery AiMOGA sales assistant robot, at the Malaysia Autoshow in Kuala Lumpur, on May 10, 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE

Opinion

Asian Angle | Southeast Asia faces a false binary in US-China mineral trade

The real question for rare earth exporters is how to turn global mineral competition into higher-value industries.

26 Sep 2026 - 12:00PM

The Lynas Rare Earths processing plant in Gebeng, Malaysia. Photo: AFP

China Opinion

Being Chinese | 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

World Opinion

Opinion | 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 - 7:51AMvideocam

China Opinion

As I see it | 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

President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping shake hands before their meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on October 30 last year. Photo: AP

Asia Opinion

Opinion | 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

Illustration: Henry Wong

Asia Opinion

Opinion | 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 - 4:30PMvideocam

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | How Hong Kong is remapping the future of higher education

A planned university town offers a chance to re-examine the very logic and model of Hong Kong’s higher education development.

25 Sep 2026 - 9:30AMvideocam

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China Opinion

Being Chinese | 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

China’s Zheng Qinwen plays a match during the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre on September 7. Photo: CSM via Zuma Press Wire/dpa

Asia Opinion

Opinion | 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 - 4:30PMvideocam

Asia Opinion

The View | How transparency drives property investment in Hong Kong and mainland China

As investors pile into alternative property sectors and seek more exposure to listed real estate, transparency becomes more important.

28 Sep 2026 - 6:29PMvideocam

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | A Hong Kong professor’s sexist views have been laid bare. That’s good

Students speaking up against an academic’s reductionist analysis of love and marriage is a welcome sight – better yet if it sparks a broader, needed debate.

27 Sep 2026 - 4:30PM

Chinese University associate professor Terence Chong advised young women not to pursue a PhD, and instead invest in their looks, in a talk at a university event last week. Photo: Jelly Tse

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Djoomart Otorbaev

Opinion | China is no longer just the world’s factory. It’s the HQ

Djoomart Otorbaev

28 Sep 2026 - 8:30PM

Opinion | The worst Asian Games ever? Japan has failed to raise the bar in Nagoya

Josh Ball

28 Sep 2026 - 6:36PM

The View | How transparency drives property investment in Hong Kong and mainland China

Nicholas Spiro

28 Sep 2026 - 6:29PM

Opinion | How Hong Kong is trying a new solution to its land value problem

Ken Ip

28 Sep 2026 - 9:30AM

Opinion | The US-China relationship has stabilised but on Beijing’s terms

Wenran Jiang

28 Sep 2026 - 5:30AM

My Take | How Beijing is neutralising Washington’s sanctions machine

Alex Lo

27 Sep 2026 - 8:30PM

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

SCMP managing editor Yonden Lhatoo sings a totally different tune to wish America a happy 250th anniversary.

HELP, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE

US-Israel war on Iran is as reckless and catastrophic as it is stupid and illegal

THEY WON’T EVEN LET US MOURN IN PEACE!

Yonden Lhatoo has a go at those who are politicising Hong Kong’s fire tragedy

Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon

Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon in Hong Kong

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