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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 | 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.

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

Opinion | How China is seeking to transform the meaning of great power

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump concluded a three-day summit on Friday. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump concluded a three-day summit on Friday. Photo: Getty Images/AFP

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.

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.

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.

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An exhibitor chats to visitors at the 23rd China-Asean Expo in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on September 21. Bilateral trade exceeded US$1 trillion in 2025. Photo: Xinhua

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.

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Hung Shui Kiu, where one of three planned university campuses will sit in the Northern Metropolis, on September 14. Photo: Karma Lo
Hung Shui Kiu, where one of three planned university campuses will sit in the Northern Metropolis, on September 14. Photo: Karma Lo

China Opinion

Opinion | China’s industrial strengths must also benefit its trading partners

By shifting towards domestic consumption and exporting industrial know-how, Beijing can give global partners a genuine stake in its growth.

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World Opinion

Opinion | Don’t let AI take over our human creative expression

The grand promise of AI has been inverted: while we continue doing the grunt work, AI is writing poetry and painting masterpieces.

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China Opinion

Macroscope | Who has the upper hand in financial markets, the US or China?

Against the rising resilience of Chinese markets, the sharp reappraisal of US debt and dollar risks makes the answer far from clear-cut.

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A cargo ship sails along the Huangpu River in Shanghai on September 23. The last time President Xi Jinping was in the US for a state visit in September 2015, China’s markets were in turmoil. This is not the case today. Photo: AFP

China Opinion

Opinion | China has a much bigger priority than winning the AI race

China’s pressing economic problem is that ordinary people still have too little money in their pockets.

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Migrant workers wait to board a chartered train at Dingxi North railway station in northwest China’s Gansu province, in 2024. In 2025, China’s nearly 300 million migrant workers earned just 5,075 yuan (US$758) a month on average, up only 2.3 per cent from the previous year. Photo: Xinhua
Migrant workers wait to board a chartered train at Dingxi North railway station in northwest China’s Gansu province, in 2024. In 2025, China’s nearly 300 million migrant workers earned just 5,075 yuan (US$758) a month on average, up only 2.3 per cent from the previous year. Photo: Xinhua

China Opinion

Opinion | China is leveraging its diaspora to boost the economy, unlike India

While Beijing has turned its diaspora into an extension of its domestic economy, New Delhi has largely allowed its diaspora to strengthen other economies.

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Asia Opinion

Opinion | Bad money decisions are coming home to roost for the US and Japan

For major economies that have relied on debt to maintain living standards since 2007, high inflation might be one way out.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Will Hong Kong’s educators learn from sliding Pisa results?

With mathematics, reading and science scores at record lows in a decline going back to 2012, educators need to radically revamp their approach.

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A group of students walk across a courtyard at Lok Fu Plaza on June 24. Hong Kong secondary school students’ performance has fallen in an international assessment focused on three core subjects. Photo: Jelly Tse
A group of students walk across a courtyard at Lok Fu Plaza on June 24. Hong Kong secondary school students’ performance has fallen in an international assessment focused on three core subjects. Photo: Jelly Tse

China Opinion

The View | Why Shanghai offers hope for China’s ailing real estate market

Pockets of resilience and growth in the city’s property sector could be the prelude to a broader recovery across the country.

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | The classic Chinese parenting playbook won’t survive the AI age

Controlling and achievement-oriented parenting stifles creativity, autonomy and critical thinking – qualities that will be needed more than ever.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Hong Kong’s contemporary artists deserve a bigger stage in its museums

Now that other Asian societies are taking their artists more seriously, it is time for M+ and HKMoA to give our living artists major solo exhibitions.

Visitors to the M+ museum on July 1. Both M+ and the Hong Kong Museum of Art have held group shows of Hong Kong art but these do not go deep enough to allow for a proper appreciation of each artist’s practice. Photo: Elson Li
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OPINION
Alice Wu

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

Alice Wu
Cheng Xianyue

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

Cheng Xianyue
Regina Ip

Opinion | How China is seeking to transform the meaning of great power

Regina Ip
Tan Poh Hwee

Opinion | How Chinese firms can avoid a Europe-style backlash in Southeast Asia

Tan Poh Hwee
Zha Daojiong

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

Zha Daojiong
Xiong Yang

Being Chinese | What’s so Chinese about US Open tennis players like Zheng Qinwen?

Xiong Yang
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

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