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China hedges its energy bets as Russia pipeline plan remains on hold

China, the world’s leading consumer of natural gas, diversified its energy imports last year enough to reduce its risk exposure…

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As China curbs exports, US scours globe for rare earths – even war-torn Ukraine

President Donald Trump’s assertion that war-torn Ukraine should supply the US with rare earths is a sign of America’s growing…

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Opinion | How China’s oil supply shift could force Russia to seek Ukraine peace deal

As US President Donald Trump reportedly pushes Russia and Ukraine to end the war that has been going on for…

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Opinion | DeepSeek’s US tech rout kicks off 2025’s game of snakes and ladders

As China celebrates the Year of the Snake, the first lai see (red packet) was the revelation of DeepSeek’s artificial…

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‘We’ll be surprised’ by US-China improvements, Harvard scholar argues in Davos

Donald Trump’s return to the White House could bring about a surprising improvement in US-China ties, including in trade, a…

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Is a glut of phoney Russian goods too much for China’s consumers to bear?

As if they were copied and pasted, Russian goods markets have sprang up in cities across China in the past…

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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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Opinion | Up in the air whether US economic arrows will hit the mark

The US looks set for simultaneous wars in three areas: deficits, currency and energy. That’s incoming US Treasury secretary Scott…

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Musk’s Starlink to bring satellite-powered mobile service to Ukraine

Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, signed a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink to introduce satellite-powered cellular service in the war-torn…

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Macroscope | Central banks forsaking gold for bitcoin would be height of folly

Gold is a marvellously flexible precious metal, commodity or form of money adaptable to different cultures, currencies and ideologies. These…

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