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Is China becoming Europe’s top science partner amid an American brain drain?

‘Massive changes in the global flow of talent’ are creating opportunities, according to the head of Germany’s Max Planck Society.

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How will Beijing judge Trump’s take on Taiwan? Look for 1 critical factor

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How China and the US felt the weight of history behind Trump and Xi’s meeting

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Diplomacy

China confirms deal to buy US aircraft after Donald Trump’s visit

Ministry of Commerce’s statement follows US president’s comments that Beijing had agreed to buy at least 200 jets from Boeing.

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Donald Trump said China had agreed to buy at least 200 planes from the US aerospace firm. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump said China had agreed to buy at least 200 planes from the US aerospace firm. Photo: AFP

Diplomacy

Is China’s new mediation body gaining steam as Western brokers’ influence wanes?

Summit encourages countries to join Beijing-led initiative as stalled US-Iran peace talks reveal limits of traditional solution mechanisms.

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Politics

How Taiwan’s Apec attendance could test Beijing’s cross-strait pragmatism

Apec meeting in Suzhou next week highlights Beijing’s attempts to balance Taiwan stance with responsibilities as forum host, analysts say.

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Diplomacy

After China-US reset, Putin heads to Beijing for Sino-Russian strategic refresh

Latest trip could allow leaders to align positions on recent geopolitical developments days after Donald Trump’s high-profile visit.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited China more than 20 times. Photo: Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited China more than 20 times. Photo: Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Science

Have Chinese defence firms broken the sniper rifle range record – again?

Ammunition and optics manufacturers say that their weapons were used to set a new benchmark but offer no details.

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Military

Can AI-assisted unmanned vessels be Beijing’s answer to South China Sea patrols?

Near-silent autonomous surveillance vessels that can keep going for months on end recommended for Chinese maritime enforcement.

Diplomacy

Trump leaves China after much pomp and pageantry, but little to show for it

US president’s much-anticipated summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing resulted in more fanfare than concrete policy change, analysts say.

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US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing Beijing on Friday. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

China

Taiwan casts long shadow over Trump’s summit with Xi

Beijing signals Taiwan will shape broader ties with Washington as Trump weighs future arms sales to the island.

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Taipei’s skyline, including the Taipei 101 skyscraper, rises beyond Songshan Airport. Photo: Reuters
Taipei’s skyline, including the Taipei 101 skyscraper, rises beyond Songshan Airport. Photo: Reuters

China

AI supremacy, ‘secret police station’, Taiwan propaganda: 7 US-China relations reads

From China’s nuclear weapons to Trump’s summit entourage, here are highlights from our overseas correspondents in the first half of May 2026.

Diplomacy

Xi-Trump summit: all you need to know from the final day of Beijing meeting

From ‘fantastic’ trade deals to the Chinese tech leader sitting next to Elon Musk, here’s all you need to know from the second day of Xi and Trump’s meeting in Beijing.

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Diplomacy

The Xi-Trump summit is over. What comes next in the US-China rivalry?

The US president’s trip to Beijing has been hailed as ‘fantastic’ and ‘historic’ but there are still many known unknowns in ties.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) and US President Donald Trump are expected to meet again this year. Photo: AP

Diplomacy

Trump ‘not looking for’ war over Taiwan but keeps up suspense over arms packages

Xi and he ‘talked a lot’ about Taiwan, US president says, will not be drawn on future of mega arms packages awaiting final approval.

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US President Donald Trump bids goodbye to Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping after a visit to the Zhongnanhai leaders' compound, in Beijing on Friday. Photo: Reuters
US President Donald Trump bids goodbye to Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping after a visit to the Zhongnanhai leaders' compound, in Beijing on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Diplomacy

Trump holds his fire: China state visit reveals diplomatic turn on social media

Just a handful of online posts from US president contrast with the flurry during his most recent state visits to the UK and Japan.

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Diplomacy

China’s Xi Jinping to pay first state visit to US in more than a decade

According to the US president, leaders could meet three more times this year, though experts doubt this will fix major issues.

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Science

Will China’s mathematicians join a global effort to boycott the United States?

Question hovers as world’s premier mathematics conference faces revolt over American visa rules and foreign policies.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Illustration: Henry Wong

Diplomacy

From apps to autos: China’s data reach sparks US espionage and sabotage concerns

Washington accused of not doing enough to counter Beijing’s harvesting of key American data and weaponising it as a strategic asset.

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Science

UN climate body presses on after US quits, while China leads with renewables

As global temperatures near key threshold, the IPCC is focusing on adaptation and carbon dioxide removal, chair says.

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Science

Are US agents around Trump armed with Chinese red dot sights?

Apparent Holosun optic on security agent’s pistol in photo from correspondents’ dinner prompts US commenters to question Chinese link.

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Security officials react as a shooter opens fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, in Washington on April 25. Online commenters showed interest in the female agent’s drawn Glock pistol and what appeared to be a Holosun sight. Photo: Reuters
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Is China becoming Europe’s top science partner amid an American brain drain?

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Have Chinese defence firms broken the sniper rifle range record – again?

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Huanan OptoElectronic reported last year that a domestically developed rifle was able to hit five out of five targets at a distance of 3,017 metres. Photo: Hunan Huanan Opto-Electro Group

Trump’s top science adviser visited Beijing. What does that mean for AI?

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Michael Kratsios has identified China as the US' “pre-eminent geopolitical rival and our most formidable technological and scientific competitor”. Photo: AP

Top Singapore-based physicist moves to China after superconductor breakthrough

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Stephen Lin Er Chow (right), pictured with colleagues from the research team that designed the new copper-free superconducting material. Photo: NUS Faculty of Science

On This Day | In 2021, China becomes the third country to land a rover on Mars – SCMP archive

Personnel at the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre celebrate after the Tianwen-1 probe’s lander successfully descended to Mars, carrying the Zhu Rong rover. Photo: Xinhua
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OPINION
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