China Asia Economy

Iran protesters use China’s TikTok to revolutionary ...

Images of the protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Zhina Ami...

New ‘stealth omicron’ variant spreading fast in China

Since the Covid variant omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved ...

China chip stocks surge on hint of big new state sub...

Shares of China’s semiconductor makers and their suppliers surged on Wednesda...

US lightning carriers may or may not save Taiwan

The US is considering the deployment of so-called “lightning carriers” to def...

Why China’s REIT boom is such a big deal

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has no intention of letting an economic cris...

ASEAN, EU champion economic integration in divided w...

Despite treading very different paths, ASEAN and the EU, which this year mark...

S Korea living and dying by the chip supercycle

SEOUL – South Korea is on track for record export shipments in 2022, but grim...

HK lifts all Covid curbs in urgent rush to reopen

Hong Kong is set to end its Covid-related health code requirements on Wednesd...

Anwar’s ‘unity’ government a fraught Faustian bargain

SINGAPORE – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s strategic allocation of ...

China’s bubbling cauldron of unemployed youth

College students and youth had been key participants in a weekend of protests...

US chip war hitting allies and missing China

The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imp...

China’s hospitals overrun after Covid rules eased

Public hospitals in key Chinese cities have been overrun by Covid patients wi...

Banality of evil: Meet Iran’s next supreme leader

In 2017, a judge named Ebrahim Raisi emerged from relative obscurity to run f...

The dire need for a new world order

When Russia’s President Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operati...

The Prius at 25

Toyota’s vaunted product development group was racing against the clock back ...

China’s space station heralds new era of astropolitics

The International Space Station is no longer the only place where humans can ...