How to manage China’s rise as a civilisational power
The world has yet to truly understand how to deal with a rapidly rising China. Even within China, some of the most learned minds...
Why US and China are struggling to reach a consensus over future shape of relationship
China and the United States may have agreed to establish a “constructive” relationship characterised by “strategic stability” but deep-seated differences have left the future...
Why Hong Kong students are heading to mainland China to intern
More Hong Kong students are turning to mainland China for summer internships as government and university schemes expand cross-border placements. Students said they were...
Chinese tourist-site performer portraying poet Li Bai offers advice to burned-out visitors
A young Chinese man is reviving China’s most famous poet Li Bai at a tourist site, and has become millions of visitors’ emotional outlet...
Asean monitors: ‘simply theatre’ in Thai-Cambodian narrative war?
Asean military observers have now visited both sides of the Thai-Cambodian frontier, measuring damage and recording claims as Bangkok and Phnom Penh continue to...
Evacuation ordered as storms gather in Washington before Trump’s July 4 speech
An evacuation was ordered on Saturday evening at the National Mall as storms gathered around Washington just hours before US President Donald Trump was...
Putin and Trump discuss Ukraine, Iran in US Independence Day call
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and the coming Nato summit in Turkey in a phone call Saturday. Putin...
Inside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big bash: a garden in the Garden
The groom wore a white tuxedo, the couple wrote their own vows and Stevie Nicks sang, according to guests at Friday’s star-studded wedding of...
China offers sea cable detection tech to clients in Middle East, Europe and Asia
China plans to export powerful robots capable of locating marine cables buried under the seabed to regions including “Southeast Asia, the Middle East and...