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The View Nicholas Spiro

No October crash is imminent, despite stock market volatility

22 Oct 2018 - 10:29pm 4

Asian Angle S. D. Muni

With voting over, Bhutan can woo China with India’s blessing

22 Oct 2018 - 3:00pm 4

Opinion Peter Kammerer

Impatient Hongkongers? Blame the MTR

22 Oct 2018 - 8:00pm 6

Rodger Sadler Chuan Shen

The AI revolution: does it have to be China vs the US?

22 Oct 2018 - 9:50am 5

The opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge marks another milestone in cross-border integration. Photo: Winson Wong

Cooperation needed to fully maximise benefits of mega bridge

The opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge marks another milestone in cross-border integration. Following an inauguration ceremony officiated by President Xi Jinping today, the world’s longest sea crossing will be open to traffic tomorrow.

22 Oct 2018 - 11:30pm 1 More on Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge

An investor looks at stock price movements on a screen at a securities company in Beijing on October 12. Despite the sharp falls in asset prices in China over the past several months, investors continue to differentiate between the current sell-offs and previous crisis in 2015-16. Photo: AFP

No October crash is imminent, despite stock market volatility

22 Oct 2018 - 10:29pm 4

Lotay Tshering, whose Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa party will form the new Bhutanese government. Photo: AFP

With voting over, Bhutan can woo China with India’s blessing

22 Oct 2018 - 3:00pm 4

Commuters queue up outside Hung Hom station for the cross-harbour bus after a signal fault disrupted MTR services on October 16. Photo: Felix Wong

Impatient Hongkongers? Blame the MTR

22 Oct 2018 - 8:00pm 6

Illustration: Craig Stephens

The AI revolution: does it have to be China vs the US?

22 Oct 2018 - 9:50am 5

Refugees and asylum seekers protest at Australia’s now-closed Manus Island immigration detention centre in Papua New Guinea. Photo: AP

Is Australia really that racist?

21 Oct 2018 - 3:33pm 61

Taipei seems happy to exploit Sino-American tensions for its diplomatic struggle with Beijing. Perhaps it should cast its mind back to the 1960s – when the US openly debated nuclear war over its islands

Taiwan’s cosying up to Trump could spark a US-China war

21 Oct 2018 - 12:12pm 149

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam attends a question-and-answer session after delivering her policy speech at the Legislative Council. Her policy proposals fall short of truly addressing Hong Kong’s major problems. Photo: AP

Carrie Lam’s policy plan is bold – in protecting the status quo

20 Oct 2018 - 6:40pm 2

Chinese vice-president Wang Qishan is set to visit Israel this week. Photo: AFP

China has much to learn from Israel and Jewish diaspora about soft power

20 Oct 2018 - 7:24pm 52

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Is America out to undermine China’s Communist Party?

20 Oct 2018 - 8:06am 30

A policeman stands guard as Muslims arrive for the Eid ul-Fitr morning prayer at the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. Beijing says the heavy police presence is needed to prevent the spread of Islamic extremism, but analysts warn that Xinjiang is becoming an open-air prison. Photo: AFP

Don’t expect any action from Trump on Xinjiang human rights abuses

20 Oct 2018 - 4:47am 8

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Saudi Arabia as part of his first overseas trip after taking office. Photo: AP

Why is Pakistan backing away from China’s influence?

19 Oct 2018 - 8:37pm 12

A trader at the New York Stock Exchange on October 11 – a day when US stocks suffered deep losses in volatile trading. Photo: Xinhua

Tremors in global markets, but are they signs of a looming catastrophe?

19 Oct 2018 - 10:46pm 2

In following Trump and suggesting Canberra will recognise the city as the capital of Israel, PM Scott Morrison is risking overseas trade with the Muslim world for domestic Jewish votes he does not need

Australia could risk a boomerang effect over Jerusalem

19 Oct 2018 - 7:36am 3

Illustration: Craig Stephens

How Sun Yat-sen, Singapore can help China avoid a housing bubble

19 Oct 2018 - 7:10am

Carrie Lam attends the unveiling of a new hotel. Photo: Sam Tsang

Carrie Lam’s vision for Hong Kong puts real estate developers first

18 Oct 2018 - 8:17pm 7

Pedestrians walk past signs for the Colombo International Financial City project in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on March 31. The Colombo Port City project is financed by China Harbour Engineering Company, as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative. Photo: Bloomberg

Three reasons China’s influence should give South Asians pause

18 Oct 2018 - 8:17pm 1

US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last November. Trump’s “shock and awe” of US trade tariffs has produced little progress in the last few rounds of negotiations with China, nor have tariffs reduced the bilateral trade deficit for the US. Photo: Reuters

Costs of a US-China break-up are too high for either to bear

18 Oct 2018 - 10:36pm 9

Illustration: Craig Stephens

For Chinese immigrants, the American dream is over

18 Oct 2018 - 10:39am 259

Women demonstrators protest against the appointment of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the US Capitol in Washington DC, on October 6. Trump’s choice for the post was accused by several women of sexual misconduct during their school years. Photo: AFP

Under autocratic Trump, US democracy is more alive than ever

17 Oct 2018 - 11:24pm 13

In a perfect world, all it would take to wind down the tension is for Xi Jinping and Donald Trump to have a free and frank exchange of views. Photo: Reuters

The sooner Xi and Trump meet, the better

17 Oct 2018 - 11:20pm 10

Children walk under collapsed trees along Tin Ping Road in Sheung Shui after Typhoon Mangkhut. Photo: Sam Tsang

Do we really want an urban Hong Kong devoid of trees?

17 Oct 2018 - 7:57pm 6

Hong Kong’s ban on e-cigarettes deviates from the city’s long-standing commitment to free and open markets. Photo: AFP

If vaping is as bad as smoking, why hasn’t Hong Kong banned tobacco?

17 Oct 2018 - 10:39pm 10

The Lion City’s discussion of a law criminalising homosexual acts has unleashed a barely disguised politics of disgust that is inflicting real damage on the mental health of LGBTI individuals

Gay sex debate helped in Hong Kong. But in Singapore ...

17 Oct 2018 - 10:08am 26

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Why Trump’s cold war to contain Beijing is destined to fail

17 Oct 2018 - 6:17am 33

Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump are seen together in November 2017 in the the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo: Kyodo

How the bromance between Trump and Xi fizzled out

17 Oct 2018 - 2:38am 26

Women activists shout slogans condemning the rape of a nineteen-year old girl while protesting in New Delhi, India, in September. Photo: AP

#MeToo in India: a true revolution must begin at home

17 Oct 2018 - 1:31am

A specialist with Lehman Brothers MarketMakers reacts to the fallout from Lehman Brothers declaring bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, as panic began to spread through the financial system, leading to the Great Recession. Photo: AP

How we’re risking disaster 10 years after global financial crisis

16 Oct 2018 - 10:55pm 2

The financial district of Pudong in Shanghai. If China’s controls on capital outflows were eased, such outflows would increase, triggering yuan selling. Photo: Reuters

On China’s yuan ‘manipulation’, US should be careful what it wishes for

16 Oct 2018 - 10:55pm 3