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1. Will Taiwan’s decentralised military model raise more questions than it solves?

   Taiwan’s military has stepped up training in decentralised command and control, aiming to ensure frontline units can operate independently in the event of a sudden attack from Beijing. The shift comes as defence and intelligence officials warn lawmakers that mainland China has significantly expanded its ability to pivot from military exercises to actual combat. This expansion raised the risk...

2. Taiwan intervention may just spell the end of the West

   The horrors of war are so seared into the minds of people that the resultant images in their heads can bias them to picture future conflicts as being like previous ones. The more tragic and terrible the past conflicts, the stronger this bias tends to be. Hollywood films play a big part in such image-making, but some experts themselves may also be so biased, especially if they are of the older...

3. Despite political tensions, Japanese sushi chain Sushiro debuts to huge crowds in Shanghai

   Japan’s Sushiro, the world’s largest conveyor-belt sushi chain, debuted in Shanghai in early December 2025, to much fanfare. People have been queuing hours for a table, with some resorting to buying tickets from scalpers. The popularity of the Osaka-based restaurant chain appears to have not been affected by the recent diplomatic row between China and Japan. The latest spat has led to mass...

4. Australia’s Albanese faces fierce battle over gun laws after Bondi Beach shooting

   When a gunman murdered 35 people in Tasmania in 1996, Australia’s political leaders united to implement some of the West’s toughest gun laws. Nearly three decades later, after 15 people were killed at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach, consensus is more elusive. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s call for tighter gun controls is meeting resistance from ascendant right-wing populists and some...

5. Why are Hongkongers waiting so long under Canada’s pathway to residency?

   Hongkonger Cecilia moved to Canada in 2023, believing it to be the cheapest and easiest way for her to get permanent residency overseas. The 32-year-old, who asked to be referred to by her first name due to privacy concerns, was part of an emigration wave that saw tens of thousands of Hongkongers leave the city in recent years. She expected to wait only six months after filing her permanent...

6. Chinese man sues fiancée for US$7,000 in gifts, dating expenses, claims she eats too much

   A “petty” Chinese man has faced online scorn after he sued his fiancée to get back all the money he had spent on her because she “ate too much”. A court hearing involving the ex-couple went viral on social media after it was reported on December 9. According to the Chinese media outlet Zonglan News, the man, surnamed He, sued his girlfriend, surnamed Wang, to secure the return of a 20,000-yuan...

7. Rivals, rain and rising costs: Thailand’s tourism crown slips

   As the windows rattled from distant explosions, British tourist Brian* sat sleepless in a dim hotel room in Thailand’s Trat province, waiting out a curfew he had not known existed. With artillery ringing out from across the border with Cambodia, his dreams of reaching the island of Koh Kood seemed to dissolve into the darkness. “The police said the road was closed and I’d have to find...

8. Patent cliffhanger: will China biotech throw Big Pharma a lifeline?

   If pharmaceutical drug patents are an hourglass turned over on the day of approval – with the approaching loss of exclusivity known in the industry as the “patent cliff” – then Big Pharma is currently watching the final grains of sand slipping through the neck of the glass. At the bottom of the hourglass awaits an unforgiving world of generic and biosimilar competition. Between 2025 and 2030,...

9. Epstein files release highlights Clinton, makes scant reference to Trump

   The Justice Department ‌released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday that made scant reference to US President Donald Trump but extensively featured Democratic former president Bill Clinton. The release was ‍intended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in November that mandated the...

10. US strikes at Isis fighters in Syria after 3 Americans killed

    US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday announced the start of an operation to “eliminate Isis fighters, infrastructure and weapons sites” in Syria following the deaths of three US citizens. “This is not the beginning of a war – it is a declaration of vengeance. The United States of America, under President Trump’s leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people,” he...