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Women and girls are the main victims of tech-facilitated violence. An estimated 90 per cent of non-consensual deepfake pornography depicts women. Photo: dpa

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | To make AI safe, put women and girls at the heart of the technology

From deepfake porn to harassment, digital abuse disproportionately targets women and girls, supercharging the harm.

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Opinion | More abundance, less prosperity: why 2 Chinas are emerging

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Opinion | Data centres are a symbol of the Gulf’s economic future and weakness

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World Opinion

Opinion | Why state capacity matters in an era of AI-driven inequality

Warnings that AI-driven wealth concentration could trigger economic collapse overlook the state’s role – governments can renegotiate the social contract to preserve stability.

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Shoppers walk past a humanoid robot selling toys in a shopping mall in Beijing on February 28. China’s common prosperity agenda, despite its imperfections, reflects an explicit recognition that unchecked inequality is a systemic risk. Photo: AP
Shoppers walk past a humanoid robot selling toys in a shopping mall in Beijing on February 28. China’s common prosperity agenda, despite its imperfections, reflects an explicit recognition that unchecked inequality is a systemic risk. Photo: AP

World Opinion

Opinion | How America’s Iran miscalculation hands China a strategic advantage

A preventive war waged without allied consensus risks undermining Washington’s legal and moral standing – strengthening Beijing’s hand.

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World Opinion

As I see it | Iran war exposes the risks of being a US ally

Iranian attacks on US partners in the Gulf should make America’s allies in Asia rethink their security ties with Washington.

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World Opinion

Opinion | Iran strikes are a wake-up call to regulate military AI

Amid a lack of regulations and binding agreements on the use of artificial intelligence in war, the risks to civilians will only increase.

A group of men inspect the ruins of a police station, bombed during US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, on March 3. Photo: AP
A group of men inspect the ruins of a police station, bombed during US-Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, on March 3. Photo: AP

China Opinion

Opinion | How China can put brakes on local cadres’ blind pursuit of GDP growth

To shift the mindset of local policymakers away from growth at all costs, China must also reset incentives and fiscal priorities.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Why China’s economic reset is a credibility test for Hong Kong

As China rewrites the growth playbook, Hong Kong must show it can anchor the offshore financing and price discovery this reset requires.

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World Opinion

Opinion | Journalists must confront the real risks of AI: fabricated facts

We don’t trust journalists because they type sentences; we trust journalists because they verify the truth.

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Avoiding AI in news production does not prevent AI-shaped information from reaching the public. Readers encounter such information through search engines, automated summaries and conversational interfaces. Photo: dpa

World Opinion

Opinion | Superpower contest puts Iran, Panama, Venezuela and Greenland on one map

When one crisis touches canal access, another hits crude and a third touches the Strait of Hormuz, it is hard to call these a coincidence.

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US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, speak at a press conference on US military action in Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington on March 2. Photo: AFP
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, speak at a press conference on US military action in Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington on March 2. Photo: AFP

Asia Opinion

The View | 4 reasons Asia’s property will endure despite Iran war headwinds

Asian property’s sources of resilience are potent and multifaceted, with the drivers of sentiment distinct from those in financial markets.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Hong Kong must keep pace with China’s development push

In the run-up to and during China’s ‘two sessions’, Beijing leaders have made it clear to the Hong Kong government that it must improve its governance and efficiency.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Why Hong Kong could be the next global hub for gold trading

If commodity pricing becomes the next frontier of US-China financial competition, Hong Kong could find itself at the heart of that evolution.

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Gold bars weighing 1,000 grams each are displayed at the Austrian Gold and Silver Refinery in Vienna on February 3. Photo: AFP

Opinion

My Take | An America in decline will keep losing wars to weaker foes – including in Iran

When battles become a matter of choice rather than necessity or survival, US leaders have a preternatural ability to choose badly and undermine their own country.

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This photo taken on March 3, 2026 shows a view of the damaged Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran. The UNESCO World Heritage Site was partially damaged in air raids during US and Israeli strikes on Iran. Photo: Xinhua
This photo taken on March 3, 2026 shows a view of the damaged Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran. The UNESCO World Heritage Site was partially damaged in air raids during US and Israeli strikes on Iran. Photo: Xinhua

Asia Opinion

Opinion | Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea is burying the dream of reunification

The Workers’ Party Congress signals a different form of “liberation” – securing regime survival through nuclear deterrence, not the liberation of the Korean peninsula.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | As Hong Kong doubles down on innovation, Hongkongers must too

The budget outlines support for Hong Kong’s role in the nation’s innovation drive. Now the city must deliver the innovation.

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World Opinion

Opinion | Journalists must confront the real risks of AI: fabricated facts

We don’t trust journalists because they type sentences; we trust journalists because they verify the truth.

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Avoiding AI in news production does not prevent AI-shaped information from reaching the public. Readers encounter such information through search engines, automated summaries and conversational interfaces. Photo: dpa
Avoiding AI in news production does not prevent AI-shaped information from reaching the public. Readers encounter such information through search engines, automated summaries and conversational interfaces. Photo: dpa

China Opinion

Opinion | How China can put brakes on local cadres’ blind pursuit of GDP growth

To shift the mindset of local policymakers away from growth at all costs, China must also reset incentives and fiscal priorities.

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World Opinion

Opinion | Iran strikes are a wake-up call to regulate military AI

Amid a lack of regulations and binding agreements on the use of artificial intelligence in war, the risks to civilians will only increase.

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Hong Kong must keep pace with China’s development push

In the run-up to and during China’s ‘two sessions’, Beijing leaders have made it clear to the Hong Kong government that it must improve its governance and efficiency.

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Pedestrians cross a busy intersection in Hong Kong’s Central district on February 25. Photo: AFP
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OPINION
Clarissa Lui

Opinion | To make AI safe, put women and girls at the heart of the technology

Clarissa Lui
Karman Lucero

Opinion | More abundance, less prosperity: why 2 Chinas are emerging

Karman Lucero
Islam Alhalawany

Opinion | Data centres are a symbol of the Gulf’s economic future and weakness

Islam Alhalawany
Shaoshan Liu

Opinion | Why state capacity matters in an era of AI-driven inequality

Shaoshan Liu
Sophie Wushuang Yi

Opinion | How America’s Iran miscalculation hands China a strategic advantage

Sophie Wushuang Yi
Alex Lo

As I see it | Iran war exposes the risks of being a US ally

Alex Lo
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