Critical cracks are ripping through China’s economy
President Xi ‘has steered the country straight into the traps he identified five years ago’
Beijing
Spending spotlight falls on China’s ‘shadow savers’
Fallout risks from weak domestic demand have dire consequences for an already fragile global economy
Taiwan sifts through strategic lessons of Iran war
Key issue is not whether the US would act in a China conflict, but how it would manage multiple crises
China’s vision of the future is a nightmare for the US
Five-year blueprint rolled out by Xi ‘translates into something straight out of Elon Musk’s fever dream’
Big pharma embroiled in China-US ‘drugs’ battle
Just like the ‘rare earths’ confrontation, the pharmaceutical industry will be the next flashpoint
Social debate divide fuels Japan-China friction
Prime Minister Takaichi’s stance reveals the ‘real shift unfolding in Japanese homes and streets’
China and the UK in green energy power play
Rather than export expertise in an industry they dominate, Chinese firms are keen to import innovation
Trump card falls flat amid tension over Xi talks
Iran war turmoil and the US president’s call for a ‘convoy of the willing’ sparks China-US challenges
Crude crisis could help China burnish green image
But Beijing will need to ‘rely less on coercion and more on soft power’ amid global oil turmoil
Ports in a storm fueling China’s maritime expansion
It would be naive to treat all projects as politically neutral by ruling out covert military ambitions