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Technology
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The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent
Any meaningful debate must include China, where the AI experiment is also running, at greater speed and scale and with different results.
26 Jul 2026 - 5:30AM
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Climate change
Macroscope
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Who pays when overheated roads melt and rails buckle?
25 Jul 2026 - 4:30PM
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Pets
As I see it
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How the death of Argos, Odysseus’ faithful dog, still haunts us
24 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM
United States
Outside In
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Why Donald Trump may regret reheating his global trade war
Over the coming months, efforts to China-proof supply chains are likely to drive US foreign policy. Success, however, is unlikely to follow.
24 Jul 2026 - 8:49PM
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer departs following a Senate Finance Committee hearing on July 22, in Washington. Photo: Getty Images via AFP
Artificial intelligence
Opinion
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Hong Kong must wake up to the cold hard geopolitics of AI
With AI increasingly being treated as a strategic asset, the city should ensure it has access to the technologies shaping the global finance.
24 Jul 2026 - 9:30AM
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China-EU relations
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As the West finds common cause, China prepares for the worst
Far from being able to take advantage of fissures among Western allies, China faces narrowing diplomatic options. But all leverage is not lost.
24 Jul 2026 - 5:30AM
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Artificial intelligence
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Why it’s dangerous to see AI as humanlike
The foremost ethical concern is deception. Treating AI systems as humanlike risks the lives of vulnerable people.
23 Jul 2026 - 10:56PM
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Doubao, ByteDance’s AI chatbot, is seen on an iPhone. China’s laws to regulate AI-powered humanlike interaction services took effect on July 15. Photo: Shutterstock
Ukraine war
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Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine shows the impotence of nuclear weapons
Having the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal has not helped Russia on the battlefield.
22 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM
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Books and literature
As I see it
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How an obscure psychologist reshaped the Homeric hero
Scheming Odysseus may have been the first modern man with a self-directing mental life while other archaic heroes blindly obeyed the gods.
22 Jul 2026 - 9:30AM
China-EU relations
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Europe wants to confront China – but without the consequences
Until its governments own the choices that follow from their actions, Europe will keep diagnosing power while others decide its fate.
22 Jul 2026 - 6:38AM
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US-China tech war
The View
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China cannot win the chip war through self-reliance alone
Beyond GPU supremacy, America’s greatest asset lies in its leverage over its allies’ critical technologies and capacities.
21 Jul 2026 - 5:31PM
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Visitors walk by a billboard showing a semiconductor chip, at the Chinese International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on June 26. Photo: Getty Images
European Union
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As the UK discusses an EU return, Hong Kong offers lessons
Like Hong Kong, which functions as a special administrative region of China, could the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union with a special administrative name?
19 Jul 2026 - 5:30AM
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Climate change
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To tackle the climate crisis, start small and scale big
Coordinated action on three vulnerable frontline regions can provide a template for how policymakers can serve the people and the planet.
17 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM
Artificial intelligence
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To stay competitive, Chinese brands must learn to command agentic AI
To unlock further success in brand awareness, Chinese firms must appeal to the artificial intelligence agents that are increasingly shaping consumer experience.
17 Jul 2026 - 5:32PM
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US Federal Reserve
Macroscope
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Silence isn’t golden for a world looking to Kevin Warsh’s Fed
While forward guidance often proved counterproductive, it is the US central bank’s job to inform markets about the outlook for monetary policy, not the other way round.
16 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM
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A television displays Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaking at a press conference as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on June 17. Warsh spoke about the Federal Reserve decision to keep interest rates unchanged for the fourth time this year. Photo: AFP
Climate change
Opinion
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Fire in Spain, floods in China, war in Iran are symptoms of polycrisis
Even as disasters in Spain and China dominate headlines, demand for defence and investment spending is crowding out climate mitigation.
16 Jul 2026 - 5:39PM
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South China Sea
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Path to South China Sea stability doesn’t run through US, UK or the EU
The statement by 14 countries is a geopolitical exercise, amplifying the flawed 2016 Hague arbitral ruling to try to drive a wedge between China and its neighbours.
16 Jul 2026 - 10:55AM
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Artificial intelligence
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As AI learns to hide, science must learn to trust differently
If institutions judge scholarship just through writing, they will be trapped in an endless contest against increasingly capable machines.
15 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM
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A staff member works at a joint laboratory for AI-powered protein manufacturing under the National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai on July 7. Photo: Xinhua
United States
As I see it
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Why is a Trump commission attacking Nietzsche, Foucault and Sartre?
The commission attacks these philosophers’ ideas as morally corrupting but Trump may be the ultimate postmodern politician, lacking fundamental principles and any regard for facts.
14 Jul 2026 - 8:57PM
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Technology
Opinion
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Clash of the tech titans: China’s quiet industry vs loud US innovation
At the heart of the battle for AI dominance is a deeper contest between two very different leadership styles.
14 Jul 2026 - 4:30PM
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ICBMs
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China’s missile test is a signal. How non-nuclear states respond matters
The reactions to Beijing’s ‘routine’ exercise put into focus a nuclear order that is rapidly fluctuating from Tehran to Tokyo.
14 Jul 2026 - 11:22AM
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US, Israel war on Iran
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Iran war is no longer a contest over just the Strait of Hormuz
The Aq Taqeh Khan bridge attack shows the war has expanded to the infrastructure that lets Iran function when the strait is contested.
13 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM
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A person stands in front of a large screen displaying vessel movements in the Strait of Hormuz on a ship-tracking website in Nicosia, Cyrpus, on May 4. Iran announced it was closing the Strait of Hormuz on July 12 and launched missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbours, in retaliation for new US strikes following an attack by Iranian forces on a merchant vessel that was abandoned in flames by its crew. Photo: AFP
Diplomacy
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Slowly but surely, China’s soft power is making itself felt
With trusted businesses, more openness, creative culture and inspiring sporting successes, China is building a foundation for influence.
12 Jul 2026 - 9:31PM
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European Union
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EU isn’t just selling aircraft to China. It’s helping strengthen a competitor
China Eastern’s multibillion-dollar Airbus orders, after EU delays on certifying Chinese planes, show not inconsistency but leverage towards a long-term goal.
12 Jul 2026 - 9:30AM
United States
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Trump’s crypto windfall showcases his ability to turn loyalty into power
Despite clear conflicts of interest and institutions meant to stop them, Trump has deftly weaponised and profited off the loyalty he demands.
12 Jul 2026 - 5:30AM
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