China’s most advanced aircraft carrier, Europe’s struggle: SCMP daily highlights

SCMP | Nov. 7, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | Original

The Fujian aircraft carrier is the world’s largest conventionally powered warship and makes China the second country to have a carrier with electromagnetic catapults. Photo: Xinhua

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China’s third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, entered into service on Wednesday at a grand ceremony held in Sanya, Hainan, according to state media reports.

2. China’s exports fall in October as firms wait out trade war reset

China’s exports fell in October amid a volatile trade war with the United States – though recent high-level talks between the world’s two largest economies have since eased tensions.

3. 7 minutes on Asia: Europe’s struggle for relevance in the age of Trump’s ‘G2’

There are growing fears that the EU is being left behind, and that decisions about its future are being made elsewhere. Photo: Reuters
There are growing fears that the EU is being left behind, and that decisions about its future are being made elsewhere. Photo: Reuters

At a meeting in Brussels last month, foreign ministers from the European Union’s 27 member states sat down to discuss the bloc’s plans for the Indo-Pacific region. The conversation, according to several people familiar with it, lasted just seven minutes.

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