China and the United States battle for supremacy
But their great power rivalry has left Indo-Pacific nations questioning an American or Chinese hegemony
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China must invest big at home to boost prosperity
Productivity growth will need to compensate for a smaller workforce as the population shrinks
‘Comrade’ Trump goes on another Greenland rant
Not even China’s Xi could have predicted the diplomatic destruction emerging from the Oval Office
Will Japan move quickly to build nuclear weapons?
Why Beijing’s concerns are unfounded for now, despite rising tension between China and Taiwan
Tech export boom will not cure China’s sick economy
State-of-the-art industries such as AI, robotics and EVs are unlikely to solve growth problems
China’s AI elite issue stark warning amid US rivalry
Executives from Alibaba, Tencent and Zhipu have painted a grim picture of an ‘overstretched sector’
Xi left rattled by Venezuela intelligence failure
Maduro capture exposes the flaws in China’s ‘real-time’ intell and threatens its trade in Latin America
Big loser China brands US of ‘colonial pillaging’
Fallout from the American military operation in Venezuela triggers a war of words from Beijing
China’s big fix and President Xi’s shrill ‘pep talk’
Behind the ‘innovation’ sound bites lies an economy in crisis – engulfed in a sea of debt
Durian diplomacy creates sweet stink of success
‘Smelly fruit’ has added geopolitical muscles to Southeast Asia nations in trade moves with Beijing