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How China is cementing its central role as the architect of green tech
Beyond climate leadership and capacity building, China is rewriting its own energy system – and the global energy order.
11 Dec 2025 - 4:30PM
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China-EU relations
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How France and China offer an alternative to zero-sum diplomacy
10 Dec 2025 - 7:11PM
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Hong Kong economy
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As UK-China ties warm, Hong Kong can be a natural bridge
10 Dec 2025 - 5:21PM
China technology
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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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The Chinese approach, forged in the fires of domestic industrial competition, views AI as “relational infrastructure”: a connective tissue for physical systems. It is designed to get its hands dirty, such as in mining, ports and factories. Photo: Adobe Stock
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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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Africa
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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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Climate change
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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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Hong Kong already ranks among the world’s leading financial centres and leads Asia in green and sustainable bond issuance. Photo: Sam Tsang
China-EU relations
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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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China-Russia relations
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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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Diplomacy
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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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Technology
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Does AI’s rise have to mean job losses? East Asia tells a different story
Studies from Vietnam to South Korea show AI adoption has not cannibalised jobs. Instead of simple mechanisation, economies are synergising.
7 Dec 2025 - 9:30AM
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The automated Seres Super Factory fpr electric vehicles in Liangjiang New Area, southwest China’s Chongqing, on September 19. Photo: Xinhua
Climate change
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Fashion industry must tailor climate plans to Asian suppliers’ reality
Efforts to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions in the fashion industry will not work if they rest on a Western design paired with Eastern sacrifice.
7 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
Hong Kong politics
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Legco poll a chance for Hong Kong to show its resilience after Tai Po fire
The election is an opportunity for the city to display maturity in the face of loss and prove civic participation can coexist with national security and solidarity.
5 Dec 2025 - 9:30AM
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India
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Not just China: India also a piece of the US opioid puzzle
Like China, India has a large pharmaceutical sector that provides precursor chemicals. But it lacks China’s drug policy control.
5 Dec 2025 - 8:16AM
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China economy
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How China engineered the rapid rise of its drug innovation industry
A market once dominated by generics is now an AI-powered pharmaceutical hub drawing billion-dollar investments from the likes of Pfizer and GSK.
4 Dec 2025 - 10:51AM
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A worker checks the position of a feeding tray in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility at the Hengrui Biomedical Industrial Park in Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, on December 13, 2021. Photo: Getty Images
Taiwan
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Why peeling back layers of strategic ambiguity will only hurt Japan
The Japanese prime minister’s remarks are merely ripples that will soon disappear, needlessly inviting the very conflict she says she wants to prevent.
4 Dec 2025 - 10:52AM
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Banking & finance
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How yuan internationalisation is helping to close the climate finance gap
Through fast-growing markets for yuan-denominated bonds, China is showing it can support sustainability projects across the Global South.
3 Dec 2025 - 8:30PM
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China economy
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China’s shrinking credit reflects a financial reset, not a collapse
Beijing is moving away from the old growth model reliant on rising leverage, towards a framework that prizes risk management and data integrity.
3 Dec 2025 - 4:30PM
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An aerial view of buildings under construction in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on March 15. Beijing is allowing underperforming and overleveraged segments, especially property developers and local government financing vehicles, to contract. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence
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Why the real AI race is within China and not across the Pacific
Which vision of AI leadership within China wins out will be more impactful in shaping the future than a simple two-horse superpower race.
3 Dec 2025 - 5:30AM
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Electric & new energy vehicles
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Battery revolution set to spark Global South’s century of prosperity
The rise of the sodium-ion battery promises to supercharge a green energy transition that will help level the global playing field.
2 Dec 2025 - 4:30PM
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Hong Kong economy
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Why Hong Kong universities are heading north for mainland Chinese collaborations
Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University, which celebrates its 20th year, is a case study for why strategic cooperation is vital.
2 Dec 2025 - 9:40AM
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China economy
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How China could solve its consumption conundrum
Beijing’s priority should be bold short-term countercyclical action: issuing US$400 vouchers and stabilising the property sector.
1 Dec 2025 - 8:30PM
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People shop at a supermarket in Zaozhuang city, in Shandong province, on August 9. Photo: Xinhua
China property
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Why China Vanke’s debt woes have barely made a ripple in markets
Robust exports, surging stocks and investors looking elsewhere have curbed pressure for more forceful government intervention.
1 Dec 2025 - 4:30PM
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US-China relations
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Trump’s world view offers Beijing a window of opportunity on Taiwan
As the US reframes the dynamics between allies and adversaries, Beijing may see an opportunity to advance its cross-strait goals.
30 Nov 2025 - 8:30PM
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Hong Kong economy
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In betting on Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong is really betting on itself
Hong Kong’s future may lie not in choosing between East and West, but in linking Asia with the Middle East and beyond.
30 Nov 2025 - 4:30PM
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