TIANJIN People walk past WEF signage at the National Convention Center in Tianjin on June 24, 2025, on the eve of the opening ceremony for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC25). (Photo by Jade Gao / AFP) The world is facing the “most complex” geopolitical situation seen in decades, the…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Beijing moves drills closer to Taiwan, with Shandong carrier in ‘response zone’ The People’s Liberation Army launched joint exercises around Taiwan on Tuesday, marking Beijing’s latest warning to the…
The Signal encrypted messaging app is seen on a mobile device with the Department of Defense logo in … More the background in this illustration photo; (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images The unfolding story of how and why national security and other officials of the Trump administration used the…
Both the protests and the market fallout could have been worse, Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid said in a note to clients on Monday. “The fact that he wasn’t charged with terrorism means the news isn’t as extreme as it could have been,” he argued, noting that “such a move would have led to the…
A two-year-old boy who urinated into a glass at a restaurant in eastern China has been defended by his mother who said he could not hold it in any more. A customer, surnamed Tang, who witnessed the whole incident at the Fuyuanju Restaurant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, has exposed the scandal to news outlet The…
Former Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda has warned of a “crisis of dialogue, comprehensive understanding, and mutual trust” between Japan and China, urging leaders from the two nations to take decisive action. “In the past three years … mutual understanding has declined further with goodwill towards each other plummeting,” Fukuda said in a written speech…
So Macron will just appoint a new prime minister, right? Yes, but it’s not that simple. The French National Assembly is divided into three political blocs: Macron’s centrists, the far-right National Rally, and the left-wing coalition. The three groups are poles apart on politics and refuse to work together, meaning that any new government could…
Whoever came up with this week’s advertising move for the Calm app is probably going to get a raise. As former president Donald Trump cruised to victory on election night to emerge as the president-elect, and dozens of breaking news alerts went live as swing states were called, the app cashed in. Calm, a mental…
Explaining that he hasn’t phoned Trump himself “because the leaders of Western countries were calling me almost every week at some point, and then suddenly they stopped,” Putin added: “If any of them wants to resume contact, I have always said and I want to say again: we have nothing against it.” Asked whether he…
Even though Scholz, following the U.S. lead, ultimately turned Germany into Europe’s largest contributor of arms to Ukraine — and second overall after the U.S. — it hasn’t been enough for Ukraine to keep Russia on the defensive. (Germany has committed about €11 billion in military aid to Ukraine so far, compared to €57 billion from the U.S.)…