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Plight of Hebei’s freezing elderly shows urgent need for pension reform
The swarming sociability of family life is fading as one-person households and lonely deaths rise. Coping with loneliness is now a life skill.
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China’s economy is struggling – even as its hi-tech sector booms
16 Jan 2026 - 5:58PM
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From tea to TikTok: the middleman’s return is reshaping China trade
16 Jan 2026 - 9:30AM
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Too few Chinese finish secondary school to sustain growth
To shift to a new growth model, China must redirect its focus from skyscrapers and infrastructure to raising educational attainment.
16 Jan 2026 - 5:30AM
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Students study at a high school in Renxian county, Hebei province, on May 7, 2015. Photo: Xinhua
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An internally split Europe can never fully engage China and Asia
The Brussels effect is real but so is Europe’s strategic subordination to the US. For China, and Asia, this means proceeding with pragmatism.
15 Jan 2026 - 8:30PM
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Investors are giving Trump a free pass
Markets, especially bond markets, are meant to be a disciplining force. Their inaction will only embolden Trump to act more recklessly.
15 Jan 2026 - 5:10PM
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Without pension reform, China is leaving its rural elderly out in the cold
What looks like a side-effect of ‘coal-to-gas’ heating programmes is really a structural issue: rural pensions are not enough to live on.
15 Jan 2026 - 9:30AM
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A worker sweeps snow in the town of Zhengding in north China’s Hebei province on January 5, 2020. Photo: Xinhua
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High Seas Treaty will both boost China’s power and hold it accountable
Beijing realises that maritime leadership will be measured not just by fleets and bases but also by who protects the planet’s last great commons.
15 Jan 2026 - 6:33AM
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World Opinion
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Why Russia is gambling on a protracted war in Ukraine
Despite a stagnating economy and mounting casualties on the battlefield, Moscow believes it can wait out Ukrainian and Western resolve.
14 Jan 2026 - 8:30PM
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China’s new property pivot is coming. Expect full stabilisation ahead
As property curbs to boost spending hit practical limits, a push to stabilise assets is now being seen as a prerequisite for consumer confidence.
14 Jan 2026 - 5:43PM
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The Chinese century may already be here
International competition will be won by nations with steady and realistic policies guided by a vision, not the ones indulging in cowboy militarism.
14 Jan 2026 - 9:30AM
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Visitors enjoy the lush, futuristic interior of a shopping centre in Chongqing, on November 13, 2024. Photo: Getty Images
Asia Opinion
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Is India fuelling an arms race in Asia or closing a deterrence gap?
The challenge for New Delhi is to solve its deterrence shortfall without letting competition harden into permanent confrontation.
14 Jan 2026 - 5:30AM
World Opinion
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Trump’s audacious imperialism will only propel China’s rise
Far from setting China back, Trump’s foreign policy is bolstering the case for viewing Beijing as the driver of a more equitable world.
13 Jan 2026 - 8:30PM
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EU-China ties are stuck between interdependence and rivalry
To break the pattern of trade escalations with Beijing, Brussels must move beyond tariffs and invest in its own competitiveness.
13 Jan 2026 - 5:57PM
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The US wants to block China’s peaceful reunification. It won’t work
US weapons sales to Taiwan violate the one-China principle but won’t sway Asean or the wider international community.
13 Jan 2026 - 9:56AM
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The Patriot missile system is deployed at a park in Taipei on July 11, 2025. Photo: AFP
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Why China now needs North Korea’s denuclearisation
As optimism grows over an end to the Ukraine war, a weakening of Moscow’s support for Pyongyang may give Beijing new leverage to stabilise the Korean peninsula.
13 Jan 2026 - 5:30AM
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Why US ops in Venezuela have shaken Asia-Pacific’s middle powers
Middle powers fear a return to ‘rules of the jungle’ geopolitics as rival powers carve out spheres of influence.
13 Jan 2026 - 1:31AM
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Why China now needs North Korea’s denuclearisation
As optimism grows over an end to the Ukraine war, a weakening of Moscow’s support for Pyongyang may give Beijing new leverage to stabilise the Korean peninsula.
13 Jan 2026 - 5:30AM
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they attend a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing, China, in this picture released by the Korean Central News Agency on September 4. Photo: KCNA via Reuters
Asia Opinion
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Why US ops in Venezuela have shaken Asia-Pacific’s middle powers
Middle powers fear a return to ‘rules of the jungle’ geopolitics as rival powers carve out spheres of influence.
13 Jan 2026 - 1:31AM
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Hong Kong Opinion
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Hong Kong courts cross-border drivers – then traps them in licence queues
Overnight queues and a complicated application system open to abuse expose gaps between Hong Kong’s policy ambition and execution.
12 Jan 2026 - 9:30AM
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Hong Kong returning to surplus no excuse for splashing budget cash
Northern Metropolis ambitions and Tai Po fire recovery will test the city’s commitment to fiscal prudence.
11 Jan 2026 - 9:17PM
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David Dodwell
Outside In
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Plight of Hebei’s freezing elderly shows urgent need for pension reform
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Ningrong Liu
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China’s economy is struggling – even as its hi-tech sector booms
16 Jan 2026 - 5:58PM
Jun Yu Chan
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From tea to TikTok: the middleman’s return is reshaping China trade
16 Jan 2026 - 9:30AM
Anthony W.D. Anastasi
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Too few Chinese finish secondary school to sustain growth
16 Jan 2026 - 5:30AM
Li Xing
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An internally split Europe can never fully engage China and Asia
15 Jan 2026 - 8:30PM
Nicholas Spiro
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Investors are giving Trump a free pass
15 Jan 2026 - 5:10PM
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