President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. “Be cool,” he told Americans. Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields that could shake the dominant position of…
In recent years, Nike ad campaigns have depicted a series of previously unthinkable scenes: Saudi girls studying, driving, and even playing sports—alone, unaccompanied by male guardians. While Nike may be in the business of selling sneakers, its partner in Riyadh was selling something far more consequential: Mohammed bin Salman, the prince-engineer of Saudi Arabia’s social…
There has been a sudden thaw in relations between Russia and the United States with the return to office of President Donald Trump. The US leader has spoken to his counterpart Vladimir Putin by telephone, sent his Secretary of State to Saudi Arabia for the first high-level talks between the powers since Russia invaded Ukraine,…
With his symposium that brought together China’s top private entrepreneurs, President Xi Jinping sent a message that the country has won an initial victory in weathering technological restrictions imposed by the US. According to the People’s Daily, Xi told the country’s tech titans, including Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei and robotics start-up Unitree founder Wang…
Daniel A. Bell, a Canadian political theorist specialising in Confucianism and China’s political meritocracy, is chair of political theory at the University of Hong Kong’s law faculty. He was the first foreigner to be appointed as dean of Shandong University’s school of political science and public administration, and also taught at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. In…
President Xi Jinping has reiterated his view of China’s inevitable rise – a belief that continues to drive policymaking at the highest level – at a closely watched symposium with prominent entrepreneurs, held to boost private-sector morale and shore up economic momentum. He told the assembled business leaders on Monday that the East still holds…
HONG KONG, Feb 7 — The crack of a gunshot and the blonde man flinches behind the lectern, clutching his ear. But instead of horrified gasps, the crowd erupts in laughter and applause. “It’s a bullet! It wants to put me in the grave,” Hong Kong actor Loong Koon-tin sings, in the high-pitched falsetto that…
Chinese experts believe the country’s first sixth-generation stealth fighter jet may have even greater stealth capabilities at hypersonic speeds, with one commenter suggesting the PLA has “fully surpassed global advanced standards”. During the flight – which took place in broad daylight – the jet was flanked by a fifth-generation J-20 fighter jet, according to footage…
For most of the 103-year history of the Communist Party of China, the teachings of the philosopher Confucius were deemed relics of a backwards past, with its leaders looking to Marxism and socialism to modernise China. But under President Xi Jinping’s leadership, Confucianism has made a dramatic comeback as the bedrock of imperial Chinese ethics…
China and the US have deep misunderstandings about nuclear deterrence, according to international relations experts, setting the two powers up for potentially disastrous consequences. According to Jiang Tianjiao, an associate researcher at Fudan University in Shanghai, the two countries even have different definitions of deterrence – one of the most important concepts in military strategy….