Canada steps up at Rimpac to rebut Trump’s freeriding charge
Canada is deploying two frigates and a submarine to the world’s largest multinational naval exercise this week, in what analysts describe as both a...
Trump-backed candidate wins razor-tight Colombia presidential vote
A flamboyant US-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia’s presidential run-off on Sunday, swinging the country hard to the right...
Where is Hong Kong 29 years after handover?
NEWSCMP Hong Kong Series As Hong Kong marks the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1, the South China Morning...
Hong Kong to roll out measures boosting offshore yuan trading in July: finance chief
As Hong Kong marks the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1, the South China Morning Post talks to the...
Nie Huihua on the non-Westernness of Chinese government and the challenge to innovation
Nie Huihua, a professor of economics at Renmin University, discusses how an effective understanding of China’s development requires a shift from Western-centric frameworks to...
US attorney backs Trump on Washington pool ‘vandalising’, vows full prosecution
Published: 5:41am, 22 Jun 2026Updated: 8:37am, 22 Jun 2026 People caught vandalising the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Washington’s National Mall will be fully...
China-Asean relations are bigger than mere geopolitics
China-Asean relations are usually described in two ways. One emphasises danger: the South China Sea, US-China rivalry, military pressure and risk of Southeast Asia...
Revolutionary Guard claim is ‘outright lie’, says Iran’s football federation
US claims that an individual with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tried to join the Iran team’s flight to the United...
Castro ally Ramiro Valdes, lauded as a hero of Cuban revolution, dies at 94
Ramiro Valdes, one of Fidel Castro’s earliest collaborators who was lauded at home as a hero of the Cuban revolution, has died at the...