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[South China Morning Post] - 01/9/2025
Finance chief ends visit to Indonesia, as survey of 600 Greater Bay Area companies finds strength of city’s connectivity with bloc has risen.
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Europe rallies behind Zelensky as US announces new talks with Ukraine
EU leaders also gave the green light to a US$860 billion plan to ‘re-arm Europe’ against the perceived threat from (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 7/03/2025
Japanese sex scouts: arrests mark alarming trend of women recruited into prostitution
The latest arrest of a senior member of the group Access highlights an extensive industry preying on debt-ridden women.
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
Beijing accuses Pentagon chief Hegseth of raising false China threat fears
Verbal volleys fired from both sides of the Pacific as the Chinese military looks set for a bigger budget.
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
Navigating the Trump ‘chaos’, China’s economic priorities for 2025: SCMP daily highlights
From China’s top economic officials laying out their priorities to a call for easier divorces, here’s a round-up (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
Trump open to again extending TikTok deadline if necessary
The US president says there is ‘a lot of interest’ in the ByteDance-owned app, and he is hoping China will approve (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
9 takeaways from the economic briefing at China’s ‘two sessions’
The heads of China’s top economic, commerce and financial bodies laid out their plans for 2025 at a joint press (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
China has more tools in ‘reserve’ to face economic headwinds amid Trump threats
Top economic officials at marathon ‘two sessions’ press briefing signal China’s ‘unwavering’ determination to (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
Chinese tech firms from Huawei to Inspur push ‘all-in-one’ DeepSeek AI servers
More than 30 Chinese server manufacturers now produce machines embedded with DeepSeek’s AI models.
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
Trump’s policies are accelerating the financial pivot to China
Instead of growing the US economy, the Trump administration’s diplomatic and tariff battles are harming the (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
The China-US face-off: a visual guide to Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s inner circles

 Discover the power players in Xi and Trump’s teams; the key people setting the agenda on diplomacy, the (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025
US firm Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft falls on its side on the moon – again
The Athena lander appears to have suffered the same fate as the company’s first lunar mission nearly exactly a year ago.
[South China Morning Post] - 6/03/2025