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The View Richard Harris

Khashoggi disappearance: too much at stake to punish Saudi Arabia

18 Oct 2018 - 10:36pm 12

My Take Alex Lo

Nikki Haley is an odious hypocrite on rights

17 Oct 2018 - 10:20pm 29

My Take Alex Lo

Yemen victim of bloody brothers in arms

16 Oct 2018 - 10:23pm 7

The View Alan Bollard

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

16 Oct 2018 - 10:55pm 2

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

Even as they welcome China’s investment, smaller South Asian nations should be wary of its impact on their environment and politics, along with the responses of India and the West.

18 Oct 2018 - 8:17pm 2 More on Belt and Road Initiative

US President Donald Trump has thus far hesitated to take decisive action against Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) over a regime critic’s disappearance, stressing the benefits of the economic relationship between the two countries and how it contributes to US jobs. Photo: Reuters

Khashoggi disappearance: too much at stake to punish Saudi Arabia

18 Oct 2018 - 10:36pm 12

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 6

When it comes to human rights, it would be hard to find a more odious hypocrite than Nikki Haley. Photo: EPA-EFE

Nikki Haley is an odious hypocrite on rights

17 Oct 2018 - 10:20pm 29

Illustration: Craig Stephens

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

17 Oct 2018 - 6:17am 33

No government likes to tolerate unauthorised currencies not issued by bona fide monetary authorities, but the creation of cryptocurrencies has created a new reality. Photo: Reuters

Digital currencies need the right regulator

16 Oct 2018 - 10:40pm

A father gives water to his malnourished daughter at a feeding centre in a hospital in Hodeida, Yemen. Photo: AP

Yemen victim of bloody brothers in arms

16 Oct 2018 - 10:23pm 7

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

Pope Paul VI and El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero pictures are seen during a Mass for their canonisation at the Vatican on October 14. Photo: Reuters

Martyr in heart of darkness still offers hope

15 Oct 2018 - 10:19pm 4

US President Donald Trump has himself to blame for the global stocks sell-off by launching a trade war against China. Photo: Reuters

US Fed does right thing by raising rates

15 Oct 2018 - 11:00pm 1

Interpol president Meng Hongwei was detained by Chinese authorities on September 25. Photo: AP

China’s detention of ex-Interpol chief highlights its flaws

15 Oct 2018 - 2:58pm 37

Post’s flagship China Conference held in Kuala Lumpur in the shadow of the trade war stresses the importance of resolving issues through mutual respect. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Bright vision offered by China conference in dark days for trade

12 Oct 2018 - 9:20pm 1

The US trade war initiated by Donald Trump against China should be met with greater national self-reliance in the hi-tech field. Photo: AP

Better technology and trade expansion the best Beijing response

11 Oct 2018 - 9:20pm 5

In a mural on the side of a building in Dover, Britain, street artist Banksy depicts Brexit as a workman chipping away a star on a European Union flag. The Europeans are not letting Britain make an easy exit; it might encourage the beginning of the end of European federalism. Photo: Bloomberg

Why trouble in Europe bodes ill for world markets

11 Oct 2018 - 10:48pm 1

China Central Television reporter Kong Linlin berates a student volunteer at a conference co-organised by the London-based human rights NGO Hong Kong Watch and Britain’s Conservative Party Human Rights Commission. Photo: Facebook

China’s journalists are the new enforcers of party propaganda

11 Oct 2018 - 3:03pm 8

Meng Hongwei’s detention comes at a cost to the confidence of international partners. Photo: AFP

Meng Hongwei case serves as a reminder

10 Oct 2018 - 9:41pm 3

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, subject to ratification, is expected to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Photo: EPA-EFE

World leaders must stand firm on trade after ‘poison pill’ pact

9 Oct 2018 - 9:07pm 26

The White House under Donald Trump has selectively banned domestic reporters from press briefings and other events. Photo: AP

When mass murderers denounce petty thieves

9 Oct 2018 - 10:47pm 36

Illustration: Craig Stephens

What the Brett Kavanaugh controversy can teach China

9 Oct 2018 - 6:20am 11

Italian leaders have to show understanding and the EU should be more open to the concerns of Italians. Photo: Bloomberg

Italy and the European Union need a better understanding

8 Oct 2018 - 11:10pm

While the US Federal Reserve is in the midst of raising its interest rates and the European Central Bank is ending its quantitative easing programme, the People's Bank of China has taken steps to inject liquidity into China’s economy to counteract a slowdown. Photo: Reuters

How China alone is bucking the bond market sell-off trend

8 Oct 2018 - 10:38pm 5

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Trade war or not, China’s innovations continue to power ahead

8 Oct 2018 - 3:18pm 79

Cars move down the assembly line at Subaru’s plant in Lafayette, Indiana. The US car industry in 2017 generated around US$100 billion in sales and employed 954,000 people directly. Photo: Bloomberg

Trump’s trade strategy to protect car industry will cost US dearly

8 Oct 2018 - 3:20pm 2

President Donald Trump’s administration is making titanically large deficits great again. Photo: AP Photo

Rising US Treasury a threat to Asia’s emerging economies

7 Oct 2018 - 10:34am 1

A close encounter between a Chinese destroyer and the USS Decatur may have been an attempt by Beijing to keep tensions from crossing into an outright armed confrontation for which neither side is ready

Is war the endgame in the South China Sea?

6 Oct 2018 - 11:58am 126

Should anyone be surprised the two countries were ready to blow off the Chinese at the insistence of the Americans?

For Canada and Mexico, throwing China under bus was no-brainer

8 Oct 2018 - 3:15pm 44

A week after Donald Trump accused China of electoral meddling, Vice President Mike Pence enlarged on the theme, accusing Beijing of trying to influence public opinion in both the November midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election. Photo: AP

Beijing must continue to hold high ground and resist US provocation

5 Oct 2018 - 10:15pm 56

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on October 3. The current bull market rally in US stocks, which started on March 9, 2009, is the longest on record since the second world war. Photo: AFP

Reign of US equities isn’t ending, whatever the market chatter

5 Oct 2018 - 3:13am 1

Calls in Britain for another referendum, possibly on the form Brexit should take, are growing. Photo: AFP

Brexit deal needed at bad time for global trade

4 Oct 2018 - 10:43pm 3