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As of July 15, China has moved to restrict the use of humanlike artificial intelligence companions and particularly curtail AI use among minors. Photo: dpa

China Opinion

Opinion | China must address social needs that drive people to AI partners

Instead of just addressing AI misuse on a surface level, policymakers should explore how to support those seeking social comfort.

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Opinion | How China and Indonesia can build a truly sturdy partnership

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Opinion | Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine shows the impotence of nuclear weapons

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China Opinion

Opinion | Why China’s low-cost business model resists reform

Even as the model outlives its usefulness, built-in incentives continue to stifle efforts to protect the rights and interests of workers.

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Firefighters work at the scene of a footwear factory fire in Jinjiang, Fujian province, on July 9. Photo: Xinhua News Agency via AP
Firefighters work at the scene of a footwear factory fire in Jinjiang, Fujian province, on July 9. Photo: Xinhua News Agency via AP

World Opinion

As I see it | 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.

China Opinion

Opinion | China is growing its export channels with railways through Central Asia

Beijing is seeking to diversify its export channels as geopolitical tensions destabilise maritime trade hubs.

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World Opinion

Opinion | 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.

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Illustration: Rocio Marquez
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China Opinion

The View | 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.

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China Opinion

Opinion | To prosper, China must become a magnet for international students

China must seize the opportunity to become a global education hub. Reform of its universities should begin now.

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China Opinion

Opinion | China won’t waste its reserves to cushion oil price impact of Iran war

On the contrary, conserving strategic reserves and letting prices spike in the short term may bring long-term benefits.

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An oil tanker unloads imported crude at Qingdao port, in China’s eastern Shandong province, on July 16. Photo CN-STR / AFP

China Opinion

Opinion | As the EU erects barriers, China’s trade tilts south and east

Europe’s importance in China’s trade calculations is shrinking as Beijing prioritises the Global South, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

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A participant addresses employees of German car maker Volkswagen during a rally by German trade union IG Metall to protest against restructuring and mass job cut plans, at the VW plant in Zwickau, eastern Germany, on July 9. Photo: AFP
A participant addresses employees of German car maker Volkswagen during a rally by German trade union IG Metall to protest against restructuring and mass job cut plans, at the VW plant in Zwickau, eastern Germany, on July 9. Photo: AFP

Asia Opinion

The View | Asian property: A thin line separates strength from vulnerability

As Hong Kong, India and Japan show, sharp divergences within a market defy broad-brush generalisations.

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Is Hong Kong doing enough to lose its top spot for expensive housing?

For all the city’s recent successes, the benefits are not translating to more affordable lives for many Hongkongers.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Hong Kong’s 5-year plan will shore up market with governance and vision

The government’s role is to reduce uncertainty through strategic direction, institutional coordination and infrastructure investment.

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Hongkongers collect copies of the consultation document for Hong Kong’s first five-year blueprint at the Wan Chai District Office on June 15. Photo: Karma Lo

Opinion

My Take | Why does the world distrust America? Just ask the Canadians

As hundreds of wildfires rage across Canada, the US president and his cronies pour scorn on the country in its hour of need and threaten to take it over.

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Smoke rises from the south flank of the Brunswick Creek wildfire near North Bend, British Columbia, Canada on July 16. Photo: BC Wildfire via Reuters.
Smoke rises from the south flank of the Brunswick Creek wildfire near North Bend, British Columbia, Canada on July 16. Photo: BC Wildfire via Reuters.

China Opinion

Opinion | Can Russia and China ever have a truly equal relationship?

In a partnership in which one side relies on the other for both export revenues and critical imports, the notion of equality is questionable.

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China Opinion

Opinion | Why China is untangling its banks from the property wreckage

Authorities are rewiring financial architecture to address the systemic risk, breaking the deep structural ties between property and banking.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Is Hong Kong doing enough to lose its top spot for expensive housing?

For all the city’s recent successes, the benefits are not translating to more affordable lives for many Hongkongers.

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The monthly rent for this cage home in Sham Shui Po, measuring less than 20 sq ft in size, was HK$2,500 in 2024. Photo: Dickson Lee
The monthly rent for this cage home in Sham Shui Po, measuring less than 20 sq ft in size, was HK$2,500 in 2024. Photo: Dickson Lee

China Opinion

Opinion | Can Russia and China ever have a truly equal relationship?

In a partnership in which one side relies on the other for both export revenues and critical imports, the notion of equality is questionable.

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China Opinion

Opinion | Why China is untangling its banks from the property wreckage

Authorities are rewiring financial architecture to address the systemic risk, breaking the deep structural ties between property and banking.

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Opinion

My Take | Churches must ensure that complaints of sexual abuse are taken seriously

As the city prepares for a sex crime legislation overhaul, every community sector should work to ensure that people are free from harassment.

St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, regarded as the heart of Catholicism. File photo: Reuters
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OPINION
Phoebe Zhang

Opinion | China must address social needs that drive people to AI partners

Phoebe Zhang
Brian Y. S. Wong

Opinion | How China and Indonesia can build a truly sturdy partnership

Brian Y. S. Wong
Zhou Bo

Opinion | Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine shows the impotence of nuclear weapons

Zhou Bo
Li Qiang

Opinion | Why China’s low-cost business model resists reform

Li Qiang
Alex Lo

As I see it | How an obscure psychologist reshaped the Homeric hero

Alex Lo
Nargiza Umarova

Opinion | China is growing its export channels with railways through Central Asia

Nargiza Umarova
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!

SCMP managing editor Yonden Lhatoo sings a totally different tune to wish America a happy 250th anniversary.
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HELP, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE

US-Israel war on Iran is as reckless and catastrophic as it is stupid and illegal
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THEY WON’T EVEN LET US MOURN IN PEACE!

Yonden Lhatoo has a go at those who are politicising Hong Kong’s fire tragedy
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Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon

Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon in Hong Kong
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