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US President Donald Trump holds a rally to mark his 100th day in office, at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, on April 29. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

Opinion | Thanks to Trump, China has the cards it needs to win the trade war

Trump’s actions have left nations feeling betrayed while accelerating China’s self-sufficiency. These, plus Beijing’s rare earth dominance, could spell victory.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet comedian Seth Meyers’ wife, human rights lawyer Alexi Ashe

Central banks

Fed’s Powell is about to defy Trump and hold rates steady

Asian diaspora

How AAPI Heritage Month started and its evolution over 5 decades

Celebration of US minority groups has evolved into a month-long event since Jimmy Carter established it in 1978. How, and why it’s important.

Drummers during 2025 Asian-American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, in Atlanta. Photo: Instagram/sabaideeatlanta
Celebrity children

Who is Working Girl star Melanie Griffith’s son Alexander Griffith Bauer?

The son and grandson of Hollywood greats, Alexander has some big shoes to fill – but he recently seems to be making his own way, as a grip on independent films.

Biomedicine: Companies

Pharus, an AI-powered cancer test developer, taps Hong Kong funds

Pharus Diagnostics, backed by Li Ka-shing, seeks Hong Kong funds for AI-driven cancer tests.

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China exports

At boisterous Canton Fair, China’s exporters get taste of life after US

Tariffs and tensions have made US buyers a rare sight at China’s premier trade fair – are exporters ready for a sea change?

Overseas buyers were plentiful at this edition of the Canton Fair, but China’s exporters are still worried the vacuum left by the US will be difficult to fill. Photo: Getty Images
International Property

Wealthy Chinese turn away from US real estate amid Trump’s trade war

A growing number of Chinese homebuyers are shifting their attention to markets like Thailand, Australia, Singapore and the UK.

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From Trump’s rival to one of his top aides, the surprising rise of Rubio

Rubio is the first person since Kissinger in the 1970s to hold the positions of secretary of state and national security adviser simultaneously.

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SpaceX

Elon Musk’s Starbase takes off as SpaceX city wins vote to rename Boca Chica

Virtually all of the inhabitants of the Texas beachfront town are Musk’s SpaceX employees or their family members.

A statue of SpaceX founder Elon Musk near the Texas town of Boca Chica, that is now become Starbase. Photo: AP
Thailand

Asian Angle | Trump’s tariffs: can Thailand escape the US trade trap after 90 days?

Thailand is seeking to boost imports from the US to address the challenges of Trump’s tariffs, but this is unlikely to improve its economic position.

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Cargo ships are loaded with containers at a port in Thailand last month. Photo: Reuters
Asean

Asian Angle | The end of ‘Chimerica’ and what that means for Southeast Asia

The breakdown of US-China economic symbiosis leaves Southeast Asian nations bracing for unpredictable shocks.

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US-China relations

Opinion | China’s technocratic elite will be a powerful force in rivalry with US

While US graduates from top universities flock to the private sector, in China, national service has become an aspirational calling.

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My Take | Forget Mao, Clausewitz is a better guide to the real US-Chinese trade war

Trade wars, like real wars, are an implicit bargaining tool before the start of formal negotiations.

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Street art by Berlin-based Eme Freethinker depicting the US-China fight over tariffs. Photo: EPA
Robotics

How a Chinese robotics firm maintains high-voltage power lines

Crownpower’s robots are taking over the potentially deadly work of safety inspection and maintenance of high-voltage power grids.

Crownpower’s X-ray detection robot moves along a power cable at a speed of 6 metres per minute, as it checks for any potential damage. Photo: Handout
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Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump offer to send US troops to Mexico

The Mexican president says she told her US counterpart that her country’s sovereignty is inviolable and is not for sale.

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‘Clowning around’: Trump rebuked for posting AI image of himself as pope

The image, shared during the official mourning period for Pope Francis, was described as shameful and offensive in Italy and the US.

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US-China relations

Chinese ambassador says Beijing open to dialogue if Washington shows respect

Xie Feng tells audience at Washington embassy’s annual open day that China did not launch the tariff war and that tariffs ‘benefit no one’.

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China’s US ambassador Xie Feng said on Saturday that tariffs benefit no one. Photo: X/ @AmbXieFeng
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Buffett warns against Trump tariffs, says he wants to retire at end of year

The Berkshire Hathaway chair stunned shareholders with news that he hopes to hand over the reins to Greg Abel within months.

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US-China trade war

Trump tariffs give US consumers, Chinese manufacturers a Halloween fright

Nearly 90 per cent of the Halloween and Christmas novelties sold in America are imported from China.

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Tourism

‘Dangerous highway’: Chinese tourists among 7 dead in US after horror crash

A truck driver and six people among a tour van group of 14 died and eight others were injured, some of them helped by police and bystanders as the van burst into flames.

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Rescue workers at the scene of a fatal collision between a pickup truck and tour van carrying foreign tourists in Idaho in the United States. Photo: Roger Merrill via AP
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Macroscope | Trump’s tariffs are waking Asia up from the dream of export-led growth

Asian economies responded to Western exhortations to pursue export-led growth. The resulting ‘economic miracle’ now looks like a mistake.

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A protester wearing a Trump mask at a demonstration against the US tariffs policy and to demand South Korea’s Acting President Han Duck-soo and Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok resign, in Seoul, South Korea, on April 22. Photo: AP
China trade

Ukraine lacks capacity to supplant China’s critical minerals supply: analysts

Analysts say US deal for Ukraine’s rare earths - meant to replace China as a supplier - will be of little use without the ability to process it.

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Hong Kong property

Hong Kong property giant SHKP sells out second batch of Sierra Sea flats

As of 6pm, Hong Kong’s largest property developer sold all 288 of new Sierra Sea units it offered on Saturday.

Video gaming

US professor teaches Assassin’s Creed trolls a lesson by killing with kindness

Narrative adviser Sachi Schmidt-Hori became the target of backlash by gamers who did not like the idea of a ‘woke’ Black African samurai.

Sachi Schmidt-Hori, a Japanese literature and culture professor, who was a consultant on the Assassin’s Creed Shadows video game. Photo: AP
Hong Kong politics

US trying to blur ‘one country, two systems’ with tariffs: Hong Kong’s Paul Lam

Paul Lam says US has ‘engaged in transnational bullying that is completely in violation of international relations and law’.

Hong Kong is sticking with its free-trade policy despite the US’ moves. Photo: Jelly Tse
Vietnam

50 years since the war ended, US-Vietnam ties show signs of strain again

As world leaders watched Vietnam celebrate reunification, Washington’s minimal turnout did not go unnoticed.

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Donald Trump

Mexico’s mega-port defies Trump tariffs with 11% gain in first 3 months of 2025

Lazaro Cardenas has for years also been a gateway for drug flows that Mexico is under pressure from the US to stop.

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