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A new EU strategy paper casts China and Russia as the two principal revisionist powers challenging European security and the international rules-based order. Photo: Shutterstock

Diplomacy

EU accuses China of seeking to reshape global order in stark new strategy paper

China trying to ‘reshape the global order in line with their interests’, says EU in some of bloc’s strongest official criticism of Beijing.

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Global views of China and Xi improve as perceptions of US decline: Pew survey

US-Iran war: is Trump falling into a Vietnam ‘quagmire’?

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Christmas tree troubles, new Pacific missile launch: 7 US-China relations reads

From a ruckus over Christmas trees to new drug trafficking arrests, here are highlights from our overseas correspondents in the first half of July 2026.

American Christmas tree growers are getting involved in the US-China trade war over fears for their profits this winter. Photo: Shutterstock
American Christmas tree growers are getting involved in the US-China trade war over fears for their profits this winter. Photo: Shutterstock

Science

Why the US-China space race could come down to a thin metal cap

Propellant tank dome that is only millimetres thick must withstand extreme internal pressures and is very difficult to mass-produce.

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Science

Award-winning chemist Zhang Wei leaves US to join China’s Great Bay University

On his return to China, Zhang says he looks forward to cultivating talent ‘who truly understand science, technology and industrial needs’.

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China is now world’s No 1 science power, top Russian scientist says

After receiving Chinese award, chemist and materials researcher says it gives him confidence that he’s ‘on the right track’.

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Russian scientist Artem Oganov says the future belongs to “those who build the bridges, not those who burn them”. Photo: Handout
Russian scientist Artem Oganov says the future belongs to “those who build the bridges, not those who burn them”. Photo: Handout

Politics

China warns of more extreme weather as Bavi triggers rain, flooding

As northern regions log historic rainfall, experts caution that local storms are part of global chain of climate disasters.

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Diplomacy

China report warns against European-led Nato 3.0 expansion in the Asia-Pacific

The alliance’s expanding military cooperation in the region will leave the bloc ‘increasingly at odds’ with multipolar world order.

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Diplomacy

Don’t buy brides, China’s Bangladesh embassy warns as trafficking surges

Officials warn Chinese citizens of a spike in international marriage scams and the risk of prosecution.

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The black market for brides has boomed in part due to China's gender imbalance, which has left the country with millions more men than women. Photo: Shutterstock

Science

‘China’s real-life transformer’: new rescue tech used in dramatic flood evacuation

Rapid-deployment, heavy-duty pontoon barge deployed to ferry 6,000 stranded people from flooded college in southern China.

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A foldable, self-propelled pontoon barge helped Chinese rescuers ferry 6,000 students and teachers to safety after Guangxi Logistics Vocational and Technical College in Guigang was flooded. Photo: X@SpoxCHN_MaoNing
A foldable, self-propelled pontoon barge helped Chinese rescuers ferry 6,000 students and teachers to safety after Guangxi Logistics Vocational and Technical College in Guigang was flooded. Photo: X@SpoxCHN_MaoNing

Diplomacy

Chinese in the driver’s seat? India-China reset hits bump on New Delhi streets

Indian government pulls the plug on Chinese battery apps after e-rickshaws are stopped in their tracks, sparking national debate.

Science

China’s satellite engine outpaces US, new SpaceX rival: 7 science highlights

From China unveiling microwave weapons to top neurobiologist leaving US, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

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Will AI kill English classes? Chinese university to drop them as tech booms

The institution will replace English lessons with intercultural communication courses as translation tools bridge language barriers.

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Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology in southern China has announced it will do away with standard English courses in favour of classes that emphasise cross-cultural skills. Photo: SUAT

Politics

Taiwan’s opposition TPP launches historic first trip to mainland China

The party aims to build goodwill and promote dialogue while supporting cross-strait peace, delegation leader says.

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Lee Wei-hwa (centre) poses with other members of the TPP delegation as they kick off a four-day visit to Shanghai on July 14, 2026. Photo: CNA
Lee Wei-hwa (centre) poses with other members of the TPP delegation as they kick off a four-day visit to Shanghai on July 14, 2026. Photo: CNA

Diplomacy

US must act quickly to counter China’s growing tech progress, lawmakers told

Analysts claim Washington needs to slow down Chinese momentum and speed up US technology advances now or fall well behind the Asian giant.

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Diplomacy

How Beijing’s islands of control are reshaping the South China Sea

Ten years after the Hague’s tribunal ruling, Beijing’s island-building strategy has effectively eclipsed the 2016 decision, observers say.

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Military

Xi Jinping arrives in a North Korea armed with advanced warships and AI drones

Could Xi’s visit indirectly advance North Korea’s military build-up as Pyongyang strengthens ties with Beijing and Moscow?

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the destroyer Choe Hyon on May 7 to review its manoeuvrability. Photo: AP
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the destroyer Choe Hyon on May 7 to review its manoeuvrability. Photo: AP

Diplomacy

Has Beijing given up on a nuclear weapon-free Korean peninsula?

China is downplaying the issue for now, as it is unlikely that pressuring North Korea would do anything other than sour ties.

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Military

Was Xi’s stance on North Korea military ties also a message for US, Russia?

Analysts note the Chinese leader’s remarks were not reported in full by North Korean state media.

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Diplomacy

Has Xi Jinping’s North Korea visit helped cement China’s vital role?

The Chinese leader’s meetings with Kim Jong-un may have helped underline that Pyongyang cannot do without Beijing’s economic support.

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Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un pictured in Pyongyang on the second day of the Chinese leader’s visit. Photo: Xinhua
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LATEST China Science NEWS

Why the US-China space race could come down to a thin metal cap

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A Long March-10B carrier rocket blasts off from a spacecraft launch site in Wenchang in China's southern Hainan province on Friday. Photo: Xinhua

Award-winning chemist Zhang Wei leaves US to join China’s Great Bay University

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Zhang Wei’s research covers topics from two-dimensional materials and porous organic materials, to sustainable and recyclable polymers, molecular separation and carbon capture. Photo: Handout

China is now world’s No 1 science power, top Russian scientist says

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Russian scientist Artem Oganov says the future belongs to “those who build the bridges, not those who burn them”. Photo: Handout

‘China’s real-life transformer’: new rescue tech used in dramatic flood evacuation

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A foldable, self-propelled pontoon barge helped Chinese rescuers ferry 6,000 students and teachers to safety after Guangxi Logistics Vocational and Technical College in Guigang was flooded. Photo: X@SpoxCHN_MaoNing

China’s satellite engine outpaces US, new SpaceX rival: 7 science highlights

A communications satellite equipped with the 750 newton test engine takes off from the Wenchang launch site in southern China on board a modified version of the Long March-7 rocket on June 23. Photo: Xinhua
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Chinese ‘transformer’ barge deployed in Guangxi flooding

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Chinese actor sells vegetables amid boom in AI microdramas

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Residents ride floodwaters in northern China

People kayak on street floods after Typhoon Bavi brings record rains to northern China
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Chinese woman finds biological family after 35 years

Woman went missing in 1991 as a two-year-old girl and was raised by adoptive mother who found her, but was unable to locate her parents
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