Trump’s tariff wars reshaped US-China trade – at what cost to American firms?
China would have bought nearly 60 per cent more goods from the United States in 2025 if not for US President Donald Trump’s trade...
China youth share struggles instead of flaunting wealth, embrace ‘comparing misery’
An increasing number of young people in China have, in recent years, begun to reject the previous generation’s tendency to flaunt wealth and success....
What Hong Kong travellers stuck in the Middle East need to do as war spirals
More than 400 Hongkongers have reported being stranded in the Middle East after major airspace closures triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran disrupted...
Indonesia’s US-Iran peace broker bid faces long odds: ‘we are nothing to them’
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has wasted no time positioning himself as a diplomatic broker in the Middle East, offering to mediate between Iran and...
Ex-Apple Daily executive first to appeal sentence in landmark Hong Kong trial
A former Apple Daily senior executive jailed for national security offences in Hong Kong has lodged an appeal against his 10-year term, the first...
Trump-Xi trade detente weathers US strikes on Iran
China and the United States are looking for ways to revive reciprocal investments, even as conflict in the Middle East casts a shadow over...
‘Change typhoon intensity and path’: China team mulls hitting cyclones with space beam
China should accelerate development of a space-based solar power station, as the technology could one day do far more than beam clean energy to...
How the US ceded the robotics economy to China
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival Gala, one of the world’s most-watched television broadcasts, delivered more than just festive...
Gulf states take the fight to Iran as missiles target oil, gas and trade
Since Iran came under US and Israeli attack on Saturday, its retaliatory missile and drone barrages have struck Saudi oil refineries, the world’s largest...