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How Hong Kong’s leader could have better reassured a city anxious about tariffs
Lee must reassure Hongkongers and the world more convincingly that the city can and will make it through the prevailing uncertainty.
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How China’s military-industrial complex is reshaping geopolitics
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Will Trump’s economic tsunami undermine the US-Japan security partnership?
13 Apr 2025 - 10:30PM
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It’s time for the European Union to do a ‘Kissinger’ with China
If Brussels wants to achieve ‘strategic autonomy’ in what has become a multipolar world, the only option that it has is to draw closer to Beijing.
13 Apr 2025 - 9:00PM
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EU and Chinese flags are seen in this illustration taken, March 20, 2025. Photo: Reuters
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A critic’s case for Trump’s tariffs
By dealing a final blow to the global trading system, the US president’s tariffs open up space for building a fairer, more development-friendly system.
13 Apr 2025 - 9:01PM
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How China should respond to Trump’s tariffs
As China is clearly Trump’s target, its response must go past tariffs to include fiscal stimulus, domestic rebalancing and broad engagement.
13 Apr 2025 - 5:23PM
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Decoding Trump’s tariffs and the world’s multipolar future
The US president’s trade wars, while ostensibly about economic fairness, are part of a larger narrative of a hegemon’s diminishing dominance.
13 Apr 2025 - 10:18AM
US President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on tariffs at the White House on April 2. Photo: AFP
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Get travellers to come to Hong Kong for business, stay for the island-hopping
Hong Kong’s islands and stunning coastline could be a major tourist draw with the right infrastructure, policy reforms and marketing.
13 Apr 2025 - 12:27PM
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How China can help Bangladesh escape India’s foreign policy grip
The 15 years of Hasina government saw Bangladesh draw closer to India but for the next stage of greater regional integration, it needs China.
13 Apr 2025 - 5:30AM
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Hong Kong cannot allow its system of foreign judges to wither and die
Such justices can still play an important part in the city’s future. The judiciary needs to make some big signings, however difficult that may be.
12 Apr 2025 - 9:10PM
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Trump is crashing the global system that crowned the dollar king
Tariff shock, loss of confidence in the dollar, stock market trauma and a widespread feeling of affront will only quicken de-dollarisation.
12 Apr 2025 - 4:30PM
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US President Donald Trump signs an executive order as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (second from right) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on in the Oval Office of the White House on April 9. Photo: AFP
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The ‘Tariff Man’ cometh: Vietnam’s misplaced faith in Trump 2.0
Hanoi was once confident in navigating a second Trump term. Now it faces the harsh reality of his trade policies eating into economic growth.
12 Apr 2025 - 11:00AM
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Donald Trump will make China, not the United States, great again
As with Napoleon’s blockade of Britain under the Continental System, American economic and tech wars have already led China to innovate.
12 Apr 2025 - 9:34AM
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The AI rivalry to watch is between China and Chinese in the US
Will the next generation choose China’s speed and resources with higher guard rails, or the chaotic, open-ended US where failure is allowed?
12 Apr 2025 - 9:30AM
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Cities power growth. China has more megacities than anyone else
Many Chinese cities have country-sized economies. Places some Westerners haven’t heard of would have UN seats if they were countries.
12 Apr 2025 - 5:30AM
A drone view of an eco-industrial park in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. Few people distant from China properly recognise the awesome size and diversity of China’s economy. By some counts, the city of Wuxi alone has an economy comparable to New Zealand’s. Photo: Xinhua
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Trump’s tariffs could mean saying goodbye to US dollar profits
If those holding or trading in US dollars see sticks but no carrots while dollar asset returns fall, the risk of a financial crash will grow.
11 Apr 2025 - 8:30PM
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Chinese brands are impressing the world – but can they inspire it?
While Chinese companies excel in quality, pricing and design, some have yet to embed themselves in the emotional lives of global consumers.
11 Apr 2025 - 4:30PM
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Why Asian real estate is safe from Trump’s tariff blitz
Trump’s tariffs will inevitably dampen sentiment towards Asian real estate, but domestic demand will act as a shock absorber.
7 Apr 2025 - 8:30PM
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People walk along Shibuya Crossing during snowfall in Tokyo on March 4. Japan’s safe-haven credentials, the boom in overseas tourism amid the plunge in the yen and growing confidence in reflation help explain why Tokyo was the best-performing commercial property investment market among the leading cities in Asia for the last three years. Photo: AFP
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What Trump got wrong with his ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
The White House’s explanation of how it set the new tariff rates was based on unfounded premises and wrong assumptions.
9 Apr 2025 - 5:56AM
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Does Trump have what it takes to solve North Korean nuclear impasse?
To get Pyongyang to denuclearise, the US must learn from past negotiation mistakes and make Kim Jong-un an offer he can’t refuse.
9 Apr 2025 - 9:30AM
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Trump’s tariff wall was never about fairness or reciprocity
Blanket tariffs on all goods imports confirm he is committed to ‘liberating’ the US from the very system that made it prosperous.
9 Apr 2025 - 4:30PM
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