Analysing Biden's ASEAN summit; China and Japan court South Korea’s new president amid NATO plans
SCMP's Washington-based corrrespondent Kinling Lo reports on the diplomatic full-court press delivered by the White House for the two day ASEAN summit, and picks up on the significant omissions in the...
13 Maj 202227min
US tech war targets Hikvision; China wedges Australia on Solomon Islands
SCMP tech desk editor Zhou Xin looks at reports the US Treasury is about to sanction the world’s biggest maker of surveillance tech and why this worries Wall Street and China’s tech sector. Analyst Ed...
6 Maj 202232min
Analysing the Beijing-Solomon Islands deal; EU sharpens China trade policies; UN heads to Xinjiang
Finbarr Bermingham reports onthe EU's legislative tools aimed at trade with China; why Xi Jinping phoned French president Macron; and complications for the UN human rights mission headed to Xinjiang. ...
29 Apr 202241min
China’s strategic Solomon Island win, loss for Australia; PLA studies Ukraine war
SCMP senior Asia correspondent Maria Siow analyses the geopolitical bombshell deal signed by the Solomon Islands with Beijing for security and a possible military base. What does this mean for the US ...
22 Apr 202230min
EU anger at Beijing boils over Ukraine; Serbia and Hungary look to China for trade and weapons
SCMP Europe correspondent Finbarr Bermingham analyses the fallout of the meeting between the EU senior leadership and China’s Li Keqiang and Xi Jinping, labelled a ‘dialogue of the deaf’ by one attend...
14 Apr 202222min
A pivotal China-EU summit; Russian FM Sergei Lavrov in China; Japan's fraught Russia-China relations
SCMP's Brussels-based reporter Finbarr Bermingham previews the China-EU summit, and what the EU leaders want from Xi Jinping regarding the Ukraine war. China desk reporter Shi Jiangtao analyses Chines...
1 Apr 202242min
China’s diplomacy surge: Wang Yi visits India; Xi calls South Korea's new president
Beijing is under growing pressure to offer diplomatic assistance for peace negotiations as Nato issues a historic statement taking aim at China’s state media for pushing Russian misinformation. Mumbai...
25 Mars 202251min
China faces ‘defining moment’ over Russia ties; Xi-Biden and Beijing’s TV diplomacy
The Post’s Europe correspondent Finbarr Bermingham reports on the one-year anniversary of China’s sanctions on European politicians and diplomats over Xinjiang, as the EU’s foreign and defence ministe...
22 Mars 202229min
