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Mark Rutte
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Hey, Nato boss man, keep your hands off the Asia-Pacific region
The West’s unspoken assumption is that Asians cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs, at least when Western interests are involved.
3 hours ago
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Mainland China
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US risks soft power by alienating Chinese students
10 Jun 2025 - 7:47PM
China economy
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What will China look like in 2030? A forecast on the next 5-year plan
10 Jun 2025 - 7:00AM
United States
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What were 2 Chinese scientists who took a pathogen into the US thinking?
The toxic fungus may be a legitimate research subject, but they have handed Washington the perfect excuse to hype up the China threat.
8 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
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Hong Kong politics
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Ombudsman sets a new year zero by removing reports from website
Ensuring easy public access to carefully preserved archives allows for Hong Kong’s history – recent or distant – to be better understood.
7 Jun 2025 - 9:42PM
Hong Kong politics
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HK eyes open to real China after fall of Western-allied opposition
Far from being afraid, Hongkongers now do what sensible people would have done long ago – dine, shop and play on the mainland.
6 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
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Taiwan
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‘Strategic clarity’ over Taiwan is just so much American bombast
Ally or not, no one with a decent sense of self-preservation can afford to take a security guarantee by the United States at face value nowadays.
4 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
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US-China trade war
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Sorry, but the ‘China shock’ was actually pretty good for America
Based on the latest data, experts argue that job losses in some parts of the US economy have been more than made up for in other areas.
4 Jun 2025 - 10:00AM
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Cryptocurrency
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Hong Kong’s stablecoin ambitions offer Chinese yuan a way into the crypto world
Beijing’s tolerance of and supportive attitude towards Hong Kong’s stablecoin ambitions is interesting to observe.
3 Jun 2025 - 7:00AM
China technology
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Springtime for China’s engineers and scientists. In US, not so much
As the chip war rages, Chinese firms and institutes have had a boost in state support while their counterparts face crackdowns and restrictions.
1 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
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Taiwan
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Taiwan’s Lai does not have the cards with Washington or Beijing
By aligning with the US and annoying the mainland, Taipei under the DPP has sacrificed future prosperity and security for little or nothing.
30 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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Israel-Gaza war
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European Union has finally shed crocodile tears for Palestinians
Rounds of Western criticism are little more than a slap on the wrist for Israel when the latter’s genocidal intent in Gaza can no longer be ignored.
28 May 2025 - 9:05PM
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US-China relations
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American financial exploitation vs Chinese financial repression
The superpowers’ rivalry is not so much about competing social-economic systems, but two different versions of capitalism.
28 May 2025 - 10:55AM
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United States
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US kicking out foreign students to the benefit of China and others
Hong Kong and the mainland are among those hoping to lure refugees from Harvard and other top universities scared away by Trump crackdown.
25 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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Britain
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Hongkongers in the UK deserve to be supported, not let down
The British government should clarify the position of BN(O) visa holders and exclude them from the impact of a campaign to cut immigration.
25 May 2025 - 12:30AM
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United States
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Trump drums up a fake genocide while sponsoring real one in Gaza
US president tries to confront South African counterpart in Oval Office with unsubstantiated allegations of atrocities against white farmers.
23 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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Asean
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Closer Asean ties can help China counter US militarisation of region
However, Beijing’s foreign policy and economic agenda are at cross purposes, with nations in the bloc suffering from chronic trade deficits.
21 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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Donald Trump
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US presidents often hide the true state of their health from the public
Revelations of Biden’s mental decline and advanced prostate cancer latest example of White House dishonesty based on the constitution.
21 May 2025 - 11:04AM
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US-China relations
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US should change the opioid crisis narrative if it wants China’s full support
While exerting pressure abroad, Trump should ensure resources at home that ease fentanyl crisis are not affected by his budget cuts.
20 May 2025 - 8:00PM
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Libya
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The world’s biggest rogue state looks to sanction little Hong Kong
As it targets the city’s judiciary, the US has paralysed the work of the ICC while planning for the ethnic cleansing and displacement of Gazans.
18 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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US-China relations
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Unlike Plaza Accord, Mar-a-Lago deal would speed up US decline
Weakening the dollar to rebuild domestic manufacturing and exports is a pipe dream, but that will not stop ‘brains’ behind tariffs from trying.
14 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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US-China relations
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China and US manage to avoid a lose-lose trade war, for time being
Trump will probably sign some modest deals, and maybe with Beijing, but it could have been done without threatening to destroy world trade.
13 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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Palestinian Territories
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The Western world has already dug its own grave in Gaza war
By enabling Israel to unleash its genocidal impulse, most leaders of developed nations have crossed a moral red line that cannot be undone.
11 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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Canada
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Alberta throws down gauntlet on becoming an energy superpower
Separation threat to Canada from resource-rich province comes when unity and wealth needed to protect against global dangers and Trump.
9 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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South China Sea
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It seems Donald Trump has just ended Nato with stance on force
If attack on alliance member is one against all, what happens now he has refused to rule out aggression to annex Canada and Greenland?
7 May 2025 - 11:20PM
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Retired Cardinal Joseph Zen is more welcome in Hong Kong than Rome
Suggestions that the former Catholic leader should ‘defect’ to the Vatican fail to take into account the political realities of both cities.
4 May 2025 - 8:58PM
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Hong Kong
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Rights of all have to be respected following transgender decisions
In Britain, calm is required as the implications of a landmark legal ruling are worked out – and in Hong Kong an activist continues to seek clarity.
3 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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Taiwan
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Western media ignore crackdown on opposition in Taiwan by Lai
Mainstream reporting targets illiberal regimes in Europe, but favours the island leader and his pro-US, independence-seeking government.
2 May 2025 - 9:00PM
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