Beijing is left wary of Japan’s ‘China hawk’ Takaichi
The LDP leader is poised to be the next Japanese prime minister and the first woman to hold the office
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Is China a climate goodie or baddie – or both?
It isn’t the United States or the European Union drawing the crowd – it’s the world’s largest emitter
China sparks the rise of the ‘electrostate’ era
The dominance of ‘petrostates’ is coming to an end in the age of renewables and the energy transition
Xi is in a race against time to secure his legacy
‘Unification with Taiwan would cement his reputation as the greatest leader in modern Chinese history’
Forget the new world order, it is already here
Military realignments and growing trade tensions will make it difficult to assemble durable alliances
Free trade or freeloaders in the global trade row
As Trump abandons the rulebook, does the global trading system have a future elsewhere?
Battle lines drawn in China’s World War II narrative
Taiwan is outraged by Beijing’s portrayal of the Communist Party as the victors over Japan
How China silenced Hong Kong’s voices of democracy
Patriotic education and suppression have changed the city following Beijing’s national security law
Taiwan’s perilous path amid China-US tension
Risks lie ahead for the island ‘whether or not conflict continues between Beijing and Washington’
Military might fuels China’s challenge to world order
Beijing’s high-tech weapons have ‘made the strategic position of the US and its allies more precarious’