South Korea seeks Iron Dome-like system as Trump touts friendship with Kim Jong-un
[South China Morning Post] - 01/22/2025
Seoul is aiming to build the US$330 million defence system to intercept rockets fired by North Korea.
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Xi and Putin hold talks, China ‘ready to work’ with Trump: SCMP daily highlights
From Xi and Putin talking hours after Trump’s inauguration to Ding’s speech in Davos, here’s a round-up from today’s (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
Hong Kong police summon fugitive Chung Kim-wah’s siblings for questioning
A leading pollster and the wife and son of Chung Kim-wah, who moved to the UK in 2022, were also asked to help with (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Panama audit of Hong Kong’s Hutchison aims to counter US canal narrative
‘The [Panama government] needs concrete data to counter this China is controlling the canal narrative,’ insider says.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
South Korea seeks Iron Dome-like system as Trump touts friendship with Kim Jong-un
Seoul is aiming to build the US$330 million defence system to intercept rockets fired by North Korea.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
India set to take back 18,000 citizens from US to placate Trump
In return, New Delhi hopes student and H-1B visas – a large proportion of which go to Indian citizens – will be (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
EU tariffs failing to stop flood of Chinese electric vehicles, new trade data suggests
China’s exports of electric vehicles to the European Union rose again in December, prompting fears of an escalating (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Elise Stefanik, Trump’s UN ambassador pick, vows to counter China’s ‘significant inroads’
New York congresswoman at Senate confirmation hearing outlines plans to vie with Beijing’s ‘whole-of-government (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
China, Russia’s growing Arctic presence underpins Trump’s Greenland musings
Observers doubt the new US president will buy the world’s largest island but his interest underlines its strategic (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
Trump suspends US foreign aid for 90 days pending ‘American values’ review
While the affect on specific programmes remains unclear, the move signals a shift in foreign aid policy under the (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
Asia’s lowest birth rate is rising for the first time in years
South Korea has the world’s lowest fertility rates, but an uptick in pandemic-postponed marriages has sparked (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025