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Opinion | How Hong Kong can help defend the rules-based order

For several years, Chinese officials have been talking about “changes unseen in a hundred years” without elaborating what they have…

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China’s offshore yuan jumps to 6-month high as rollback of ‘egregious’ tariffs seen likely

The offshore yuan strengthened and broke past the 7.2 level against the US dollar for the first time since November,…

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Opinion | Trump’s unpredictability and a fractured US are a dangerous mix

US President Donald Trump’s unpredictability and the tariff war are complicating the tense transition of the world’s economic centre from…

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Vice-premier adds weight to push for Shanghai to become global financial centre

The Chinese leadership’s renewed emphasis on accelerating Shanghai’s emergence as a global financial centre reaffirms Beijing’s commitment to the long-standing…

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China rolls out plan to promote its own payment system as US trade war simmers

China has released an action plan to promote the use of the yuan and its own payment system in international…

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China nominates Zou Jiayi to be the next president of the AIIB

China has nominated Zou Jiayi, a former vice-minister of finance, as its candidate for the next president of the Asian…

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China wants to supercharge growth with applications of nuclear tech

Beijing has set an ambitious target for the expansion of commercial applications for its nuclear technology in a variety of…

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Macroscope | Tariff wars show just how badly we need global trade reform

Will the global trading system survive the Trump tariff onslaught and revert to normality? Yes, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim…

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Opinion | Can world leaders at Davos truly succeed in ‘reimagining growth’?

Leaders in government, business, academia and philanthropy convene in Davos, Switzerland, this week to sort out the world’s challenges, including…

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Opinion | How Global South can resist US hegemony and its isolationism

US foreign policy is torn between president-elect Donald Trump’s transactional nationalism and the establishment’s fixation with global primacy. To achieve…

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