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Why Russian gas imports won’t improve China’s air quality

19 Dec 2018 - 2:39pm 1

Yoon Young-kwan

Yoon Young-kwan

Can Kim Jong-un become North Korea’s Deng Xiaoping?

19 Dec 2018 - 7:21am

The lingering racism behind ‘unhealthy’ MSG and ‘dirty’ Chinese kitchens

17 Dec 2018 - 7:38pm 1

Abacus Tom Holland

Modi’s plans for India’s central bank borrow from the future

17 Dec 2018 - 10:04am 2

Stoker Dai Yanjia adds coals to a steam locomotive boiler at Sandaoling coal mine area in Hami, in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in January. Photo: Xinhua

Why Russian gas imports won’t improve China’s air quality

Beijing may tout its growing cooperation with Russia in natural gas, but the real problem lies with China’s reliance on coal and the coal-guzzling metals industry for economic growth.

19 Dec 2018 - 2:39pm 1 More on The View

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ride in a car during a parade through a street in Pyongyang on September 18. Photo: Pyongyang Press Corps Pool via AP

Can Kim Jong-un become North Korea’s Deng Xiaoping?

19 Dec 2018 - 7:21am

Lessons of past point way ahead for Xi Jinping as opening up goes on

Lessons of past point way ahead for Xi Jinping as opening up goes on

19 Dec 2018 - 12:07pm

French President Emmanuel Macron talks to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on November 30. Parts of their conversation were recorded, in which Macron was heard telling the crown prince “I am worried”. Photo: EPA-EFE / Saudi Royal Court Handout

Blame the West’s moral cowardice for rise of strongman leaders

18 Dec 2018 - 7:58pm 15

Tourists eat food on the main street of Chinatown in Bangkok. Photo: Shutterstock

The lingering racism behind ‘unhealthy’ MSG and ‘dirty’ Chinese kitchens

17 Dec 2018 - 7:38pm 1

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: AP

Modi’s plans for India’s central bank borrow from the future

17 Dec 2018 - 10:04am 2

A priority at NUS is the development of local faculty and research-based local content in the curriculum. Photo: Handout

Singapore’s US$200k university salaries are worth every penny

17 Dec 2018 - 8:04am 7

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou exits court following a bail hearing in Vancouver on December 11. Photo: AFP

Meng Wanzhou: how China could turn Huawei arrest in its favour

15 Dec 2018 - 9:33am 60

Some 80,000 people attended the December 8 rally in Kuala Lumpur. Photo: EPA

Anxieties about ‘new Malaysia’ go deeper than race

14 Dec 2018 - 10:34am 6

A group of graduates hold up placards and a banner that reads “Anthem law today, Article 23 tomorrow” during Chinese University of Hong Kong’s congregation for the conferment of degrees in Sha Tin on November 15. Photo: Felix Wong

How Hong Kong’s youth can be a force for change beyond politics

14 Dec 2018 - 6:05am

Isolating firms such as Huawei and ZTE will only fragment 5G standards and services. Photo: Reuters

World will be worse off if US tries to kill Chinese telecoms giants

13 Dec 2018 - 11:11pm 12

Illustration: Timothy Mcevenue

Malaysia’s democratic disruption shines out amid populist nationalism

13 Dec 2018 - 10:02am 1

Huawei executive Sabrina Meng Wanzhou’s arrest at Vancouver airport on December 1 came while President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump were holding crucial talks on the trade war. Photo: Handout

Canada caught in crossfire as Trump mixes business with politics

12 Dec 2018 - 10:08pm 13

Don’t ask why US acted against China’s Huawei. Ask: why now?

Don’t ask why US acted against China’s Huawei. Ask: why now?

12 Dec 2018 - 8:45pm 73

Illustration: Timothy Mcevenue

The Basic Law may be a child of China’s constitution, but it has come of age

10 Dec 2018 - 7:00am 10

Forget Trump-Xi trade war ‘truce’, the US-China rivalry is just getting started

Forget the ‘truce’, the Trump-Xi rivalry is just getting started

10 Dec 2018 - 2:50pm 25

Meng Wanzhou arrest: what if China went after US executives?

Meng Wanzhou arrest: what if China went after US executives?

8 Dec 2018 - 5:03pm 187

The seizure of the Huawei executive could not have come at a worse time, and it is essential the truce between Washington and Beijing holds. Photo: Reuters

Focus should remain on talks in trade war despite Meng arrest

12 Dec 2018 - 8:51pm 5

Huawei’s chief financial officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou. Photo: Reuters

Huawei more wronged than doing wrong

12 Dec 2018 - 8:51pm 76

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on December 6. A miscommunication from the Fed can have amplified market effects, even if the statements contain a degree of truth. Photo: AFP

Shining a light on the Fed’s quest for the ‘R-star’ neutral rate

7 Dec 2018 - 10:23pm

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their Singapore summit in June. The US president has suggested that a second summit between the two could take place early in 2019. Photo: AP

Why a second Trump-Kim summit might do more harm than good

7 Dec 2018 - 6:27am 2

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Can the Western liberal order be preserved without US leadership?

7 Dec 2018 - 10:20am 28

Voters in Taiwan have rejected reform of the civil code to allow same-sex unions. Photo: AP

Battle of hearts and minds has yet to be won on gay marriage

6 Dec 2018 - 11:33pm 20

Patrick Ho, a former Hong Kong home affairs secretary, has been convicted in New York on seven of eight counts of bribery and money laundering. Photo: SCMP

The long – and political – arm of US law

12 Dec 2018 - 8:55pm 17

Illustration: Craig Stephens

How the world has changed its mind on China’s belt and road

6 Dec 2018 - 12:49pm 31

Given the ability of chemists to reinvent dangerous psychoactive substances like fentanyl, China faces a battle to make meaningful inroads into the growing trade. Photo: AFP

War against synthetic opioids must be won

5 Dec 2018 - 9:48pm 3

The Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing was the venue for high-level talks on the economy between China and the EU in June. The EU may not like Donald Trump’s protectionist stance, but, like the US, it has similar complaints of China’s trade and investment practices. Photo: Reuters

Dislike of Trump’s trade war won’t make China and Europe allies

5 Dec 2018 - 8:14pm 4

US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and their respective teams attend a working dinner after the G20 leaders’ summit in Buenos Aires on December 1. Photo: Reuters

Still destined for war? What Xi-Trump trade talks didn’t change

5 Dec 2018 - 10:32pm

With its legislative changes last year, Taiwan has become a model of modern direct democracy, with perhaps the most liberal referendum law in the world. Photo: AFP

Beijing has a wary eye on Asia’s leading democracy – Taiwan

5 Dec 2018 - 4:03am 48