With Japan, China faces a corrosive security dilemma

Illustration: Mario Rivera

Wenran Jiang, the founding director of the China Institute and Mactaggart Research Chair Emeritus at the University of Alberta, is an adviser at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.

Japan’s 610-page 2026 defence white paper cements a strategic shift: Tokyo has labelled China an “unprecedented and the greatest strategic challenge” for the fourth straight year, a

Myanmar rebuffs Asean call to free Aung San Suu Kyi, questions need for envoy

Myanmar will continue to work with Asean’s special envoy but does not see the need to continue when Singapore takes over on January 1

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Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing reviews the honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday. Myanmar’s former army chief who had originally seized power in 2021 from Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government, has been trying to win political legitimacy since the takeover and resume relations with Asean. Photo: EPA

Myanmar ’s military-backed government has rejected the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ renewed call for the unconditional release of detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and dismissed the need for the organisation’s

Chinese boy, 9, missing after being swept away by wave as Typhoon Dolphin approached coast

Accidents and disasters in China

Rescuers still searching for child, who was taken across a causeway by two adults in Zhejiang when a typhoon warning was already in place

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Video footage shows a family of two adults and two children — frantically sprinting across a stone and cement causeway that connects the mainland to a rocky offshore island. After a colossal wave several metres tall smashed over the path, a nine-year-old boy who has been missing since he was swept away by a giant wave in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. Photo: Handout
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Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing after posting 147% jump in first-half revenue

The Chinese AI chip developer plans a listing in Hong Kong to deepen its ‘international strategic footprint’

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People visit the Moore Threads booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Photo: Getty Images

Howard Liu in Beijing and Coco Feng in Guangdong

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chip developer Moore Threads plans to seek a listing in Hong Kong after reporting a 147 per cent jump in first-half revenue, as the Nvidia challenger seeks fresh capital amid booming demand for home-grown computing power.

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Chinese vloggers are taking to YouTube to ‘set the record straight’

At a night market in Shenzhen, Sasa Xu finishes her day with passion fruit tea.

It costs US$2.40, bringing her total spend for the day to US$9.40 – details that close out her video “What low-income life in China really looks like”.

The video has drawn more than 470,000 views since it was posted to YouTube in April. It includes footage of Xu at a traditional wet market and walking through a densely populated “


Inside a paper coffin: how Hongkongers can prepare for the end of life

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
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Hiker collapses, dies on Hong Kong trail as city swelters in record-breaking heat

Plover Cove Reservoir in Tai Po. Photo: Sam Tsang

A hiker collapsed and died in the Tai Po countryside on Sunday afternoon as Hong Kong endured its hottest temperatures since records began 142 years ago.

Police said they received a report at 2.17pm that a man in his sixties had been discovered unconscious on the Plover Cove Reservoir Country Trail.

Firefighters and rescue teams assembled at the reservoir dam before heading up the


8% of owners at fire-hit Hong Kong estate yet to accept buy-back as deadline nears

About eight per cent of homeowners at the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong have yet to accept the government’s buy-back offer, which is set to expire at the end of this month.

Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Sunday that 91.9 per cent of owners had submitted acceptance letters, while 65.7 per cent of owners had already signed sale and purchase agreements with the government.

Speaking to the media after a town hall meeting to gather views on the


Matter of pure force: US, Israeli physicists hail China’s glueball discovery as ‘triumph’

Global experts praise team for solving 50-year-old puzzle, while Chinese social media buzzes with Nobel Prize predictions

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The Beijing Spectrometer III particle detector at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider in Beijing, where researchers have found the strongest evidence yet for the long-sought glueball. Photo: Handout

The international physics community has hailed a Chinese-led discovery as a “triumph” after researchers presented the strongest evidence yet for the existence of the “glueball” – a mysterious particle made of pure force.
On Chinese social media, the conversation centred on whether the research could lead to a

China races to develop brain-computer interfaces that can be inserted in 10 minutes

Chinese start-ups are developing brain-computer interfaces that can be implanted via a vein in just 10 minutes. Photo: Shutterstock

Chinese start-ups and researchers are racing to bring brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to market that can be implanted in just a few minutes, as Beijing pushes to nurture home-grown players in the sector to compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink .

The Chinese devices – which enable patients to control digital technology using their thoughts alone – can be inserted via a vein like a stent, unlike conventional BCIs that require patients to undergo brain surgery