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Unrivalled Xi–Putin summit coverage. Get real-time updates and exclusive reporting straight from our Beijing bureau. Subscribe now with great savings to stay ahead. This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart X...
Unrivalled Xi–Putin summit coverage. Get real-time updates and exclusive reporting straight from our Beijing bureau. Subscribe now with great savings to stay ahead. This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart X...
Unrivalled Xi–Putin summit coverage. Get real-time updates and exclusive reporting straight from our Beijing bureau. Subscribe now with great savings to stay ahead. This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart X...
Unrivalled Xi–Putin summit coverage. Get real-time updates and exclusive reporting straight from our Beijing bureau. Subscribe now with great savings to stay ahead. This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart X...
Unrivalled Xi–Putin summit coverage. Get real-time updates and exclusive reporting straight from our Beijing bureau. Subscribe now with great savings to stay ahead. This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart X...
Unrivalled Xi–Putin summit coverage. Get real-time updates and exclusive reporting straight from our Beijing bureau. Subscribe now with great savings to stay ahead. This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart X...
This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday. Putin is visiting the Chinese capital just days after the landmark summit between Xi and US President Donald Trump, which marked a reset in b...
This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday. Putin is visiting the Chinese capital just days after the landmark summit between Xi and US President Donald Trump, which marked a reset in b...
This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday. Putin is visiting the Chinese capital just days after the landmark summit between Xi and US President Donald Trump, which marked a reset in b...
This live article is freely available to our registered users. Please log in or create an account below. After arriving in Beijing on Tuesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday. Putin is visiting the Chinese capital just days after the landmark summit between Xi and US President Donald Trump, which marked a reset in b...
French investors are warming to Hong Kong again, the city’s finance chief has said, citing a “marked difference” in local perceptions compared with his last visit to Paris two years ago. The shift is driven by Hong Kong’s strong market performance and an improved geopolitical situation, especially following US President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po to...
Indonesia continues to notch one grim milestone after another. The latest: losing its status as Southeast Asia’s largest stock market to Singapore. The total market capitalisation of Indonesian-listed companies has fallen well over 30 per cent from a peak in January to US$618 billion, while Singapore’s has climbed to US$645 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Investor sentiment in In...
Japan’s planned deployment of long-range surveillance drones on remote Pacific islands would mark a significant expansion of its ability to monitor Chinese naval activity, as Beijing’s warships operate more frequently beyond the first island chain. The drones are to be stationed on Iwo Jima and Chichijima Island in the Ogasawara chain south of Tokyo, according to a report by the Yomiuri newspaper ...
The end of the Cold War was supposed to deliver a long peace. For a while, that was working, until it wasn’t. We might now be entering another period when the breakdown of a world order leads to war. It was no accident that President Xi Jinping cited the “Thucydides Trap” during his summit in Beijing with his US counterpart Donald Trump, putting it forward as something for both superpowers to avoi...
The zoo housing the viral Japanese macaque Punch said on Tuesday it is considering a complete ban on photography and filming around the monkey enclosure after two men were recently arrested over an intrusion incident. The Ichikawa City Zoo in Chiba prefecture has already expanded the buffer zone around the enclosure and installed anti-intrusion netting following Sunday’s incident involving two men...
China has rolled out the red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin for his 25th visit to the country, underscoring a frequency of head-of-state diplomacy that far outpaces Beijing’s engagement with Washington. Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday night for a two-day state visit, less than a week after US President Donald Trump wrapped up his own closely watched trip to China. This marks the f...
A man in China with only one arm and one leg who took part in a bodybuilding competition, attracting thunderous applause at site and massive admiration on social media. The muscular Liu Xinju, 32, joined The 20th Bodybuilding Competition in Jinan, the capital city of eastern Shandong province, which was held on May 10. Videos of his performance on stage went viral on mainland social media. Many pe...
US President Donald Trump tightened his grip on the Republican Party on Tuesday as Kentucky voters ousted one of the few conservative lawmakers willing to challenge him openly. Congressman Thomas Massie’s defeat, which he conceded some three hours after polls closed, marked another victory in Trump’s campaign to punish Republican dissent. It follows the rout of Indiana state lawmakers who defied t...
US President Donald Trump scored another victory in his campaign to punish disloyal Republicans on Tuesday as congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky lost his primary race, underscoring the risks for lawmakers who defy Trump. Massie, who angered Trump by leading a push to release Justice Department files tied to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was defeated by Ed Gallrein, a former US Navy Se...
US President Donald Trump scored another victory in his campaign to punish disloyal Republicans on Tuesday as congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky lost his primary race, underscoring the risks for lawmakers who defy Trump. Massie, who angered Trump by leading a push to release Justice Department files tied to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was defeated by Ed Gallrein, a former US Navy Se...
Kazakhstan aims to deepen its financial services cooperation with Hong Kong, viewing it as an ideal fundraising hub to access renminbi capital through bond issuances, according to the country’s top envoy in the city. In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, Bauyrzhan Dosmanbetov, Kazakhstan’s consul general in Hong Kong, also said the Central Asian country’s community in the ci...
Asia’s clean energy push is facing heightened supply-chain risk as the Middle East conflict disrupts aluminium and nickel production and could raise costs for solar panels, wind turbines and grid upgrades. Countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines have installed more rooftop solar panels and other green infrastructure in recent years, driven by high power bills caused by elevated oi...
Israeli forces opened fire on at least two vessels in an aid flotilla sailing towards Gaza on Tuesday, according to video footage and flotilla organisers, but Israel said no live ammunition was used and there were no casualties. The flotilla was making a renewed attempt to deliver aid to Gaza after earlier missions were intercepted by Israel in international waters. Video from the flotilla’s live...
Israeli forces opened fire on at least two vessels in an aid flotilla sailing towards Gaza on Tuesday, according to video footage and flotilla organisers, but Israel said no live ammunition was used and there were no casualties. The flotilla was making a renewed attempt to deliver aid to Gaza after earlier missions were intercepted by Israel in international waters. Video from the flotilla’s live...
US Vice-President J.D. Vance said on Tuesday that diplomatic talks between Washington and Tehran had made “good progress”, but warned that the US military was “locked and loaded” to restart its campaign against Iran if negotiations collapsed. “A lot of good progress is being made, but we’re just going to keep on working at it, and eventually we’ll either hit a deal or we won’t,” Vance said during ...
Hong Kong landlords have put forward just four of the city’s 110,000 subdivided homes for certification approval in the two-and-a-half months since a new law was enacted to phase out substandard living spaces, highlighting a low participation rate. Three of the applications were submitted by a single landlord, Hayson Chan Hin-hay, chairman of the Hong Kong Basic Housing Units Operators Association...
Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio has staked out a contrasting position on pricing to its domestic rival, Li Auto, with a top executive suggesting that carmakers must prioritise profitability as material costs climb. Nio senior vice-president Ji Huaqiang, in charge of manufacturing, logistics and operations, told reporters on Tuesday that perennially operating at a loss would be detrimental for a...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast warned that allowing American tech firms to chase business in China could make the US the ultimate “loser”, in remarks that followed US President Donald Trump’s return from Beijing, where artificial intelligence (AI) was discussed. “There’s a reason that we don’t sell Lockheed F-35s [or] F-22s to China and beyond that, to Russia, Iran and North K...
A 56-year-old woman fell into an open maintenance hole on a busy New York street and died, police and utility officials said as they investigated how it could have happened. The woman parked her Mercedes-Benz SUV right next to the maintenance hole on Monday night near the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan and fell in after exiting the vehicle shortly before 11.30pm, ...
Last week, US President Donald Trump landed in China aiming to secure the kind of blockbuster trade deals he championed nine years ago – spanning everything from soybeans to aircraft and energy. By the time he departed, it was clear that reality would fall far short of expectations. Despite Trump hailing a “fantastic deal”, China did not announce the massive buying spree that many had anticipated....
