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Australia’s social media ban offers a path between excess and inaction
For policymakers elsewhere, Canberra’s approach to children’s social media use isn’t a model to copy but one to learn from.
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Why India can’t afford to let relations with Russia crumble
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How France and China offer an alternative to zero-sum diplomacy
10 Dec 2025 - 7:11PM
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As UK-China ties warm, Hong Kong can be a natural bridge
China’s innovation and influence present exciting opportunities for both nations, and Hong Kong plays a unique role in this equation.
10 Dec 2025 - 5:21PM
Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng gestures to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves before the start of the 11th China-UK Economy and Finance Dialogue in Beijing on January 11. Photo: AP
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Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI
The US champions AI as an autonomous agent, a content creator. China exports a vision of AI as a digital nervous system for the real economy.
10 Dec 2025 - 10:26AM
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How Nexperia became a casualty of the US-China trade war
Unless the two superpowers reach a long-term solution to trade tensions, smaller companies and economies will get caught in the crossfire.
10 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
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How to preserve Europe’s liberty in the Trump 2.0 era
If Europe truly values liberty, it must build the means to defend it and start finally seeing the world as it is, not as it remembers it.
9 Dec 2025 - 9:12PM
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How China can help Africa build human capital
To truly harness their potential, countries across the continent seeking to industrialise must develop education and infrastructure in tandem.
9 Dec 2025 - 5:47PM
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How Hong Kong can distinguish itself as a climate finance hub
The city should lead by directing capital to projects that modernise grids, electrify transport and accelerate green supply chains.
9 Dec 2025 - 9:30AM
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Why Hong Kong’s youth must be key part of city’s mental health support
When young people are involved in designing interventions, those interventions are more culturally relevant, better used and more sustainable.
9 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
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In reaching out to China, European states can’t keep acting alone
The idea of an autonomous bloc engaging Beijing from a position of strength and independence collapses when its toothless leaders visit.
8 Dec 2025 - 9:06PM
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Asia’s housing affordability squeeze shows no signs of slowing
Some of the sharpest increases in property values are in economies facing major headwinds or those suffering from an acute shortage of affordable housing.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:23PM
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After Hong Kong fire, new lawmakers will have to hit the ground running
Lawmakers must reach out to their electorates, listen to grievances and frustrations and seek to understand people’s plight.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:05PM
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Despite their strong ties, Russia and China are emotional opposites
Moscow is haunted by a longing for Western approval in contrast to Beijing, which focuses on borrowing what works and changing what doesn’t.
8 Dec 2025 - 11:41AM
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Japanese PM Takaichi has learned how to do a Washington over Taiwan
“Strategic ambiguity” over the island used to be a benign doctrine, but now it is becoming as dangerous as what US hawks have called “strategic clarity”.
7 Dec 2025 - 10:30PM
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Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to the media after a telephone call with US President Donald Trump, at her official residence in Tokyo, Japan, November 25, 2025. Photo: Reuters
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Why 2026 will be the year AI hype collides with reality
The reckoning ahead for the AI bubble promises to reprice expectations, force economic trade-offs and call out circular deals.
7 Dec 2025 - 8:30PM
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How China can ensure Tazara rail deal in Africa is a win-win
The Chinese-funded rail upgrade benefits Tanzania and Zambia while securing China a trade corridor and access to critical African minerals.
7 Dec 2025 - 5:38PM
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After Hong Kong fire, new lawmakers will have to hit the ground running
Lawmakers must reach out to their electorates, listen to grievances and frustrations and seek to understand people’s plight.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:05PM
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Legco election forums resume at the Lai Chi Kok Government Offices after the Tai Po fire on December 3. Photo: Nora Tam
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Asia’s housing affordability squeeze shows no signs of slowing
Some of the sharpest increases in property values are in economies facing major headwinds or those suffering from an acute shortage of affordable housing.
8 Dec 2025 - 5:23PM
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In reaching out to China, European states can’t keep acting alone
The idea of an autonomous bloc engaging Beijing from a position of strength and independence collapses when its toothless leaders visit.
8 Dec 2025 - 9:06PM
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Why Hong Kong’s youth must be key part of city’s mental health support
When young people are involved in designing interventions, those interventions are more culturally relevant, better used and more sustainable.
9 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
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Australia’s social media ban offers a path between excess and inaction
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Ivan Lidarev
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Why India can’t afford to let relations with Russia crumble
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Gerui Wang
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How France and China offer an alternative to zero-sum diplomacy
10 Dec 2025 - 7:11PM
Lord Stockwood
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As UK-China ties warm, Hong Kong can be a natural bridge
10 Dec 2025 - 5:21PM
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Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI
10 Dec 2025 - 10:26AM
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How Nexperia became a casualty of the US-China trade war
10 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
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