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Trump’s ‘vacillating’ China policy leads to allies’ crisis of confidence: security report

The United States has appeared “more threatening” over the past year, while perceptions of China have improved markedly in parts of the Western world, according to a global risk survey released on Monday. The same report, released in the lead-up to the Munich Security Conference (MSC) this week, also accused Beijing of “increasingly threatening regional stability” in the Indo-Pacific, while...
China’s ByteDance, Alibaba unveil AI image tools to rival Google’s popular Nano Banana

TikTok parent ByteDance has unveiled its latest generative artificial intelligence image model that it says undercuts the popular Nano Banana image editor from Alphabet’s Google, a fresh development that comes as China and the US intensify their AI competition. ByteDance’s new image model faced immediate competition from Alibaba Cloud, which also released its latest image-generation model,...
‘Brilliant’ retail and dining revenue gives Hong Kong’s Ngong Ping 360 boost

Hong Kong cable car attraction Ngong Ping 360 maintained steady revenue over the past year with a 20 per cent retail and dining surge helping to offset stagnant ticket sales for rides. The operator also said on Tuesday that it would introduce night rides for the first time to headline its 20th anniversary celebrations. Ngong Ping 360 managing director James Tung Pui-chuen pointed to ticket...
India tightens social media grip as X, YouTube, Meta face 3-hour takedown rules

India’s government said on Tuesday ‍social media companies would have to take down unlawful content within three hours of being notified, tightening an earlier 36-hour timeline in what could be ⁠a compliance challenge for Meta, YouTube and X. The changes amend India’s 2021 IT rules, which have already been a flashpoint between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and global technology...
Hong Kong hotel removes seafood items from its restaurants amid food poisoning cases

Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel has removed certain seafood items, including raw oysters, from its restaurants’ menus after eight people reportedly fell ill after consuming them. The luxury five-star hotel in Central said it was closely monitoring the situation and was working in full cooperation with the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) in their...
Israel’s ‘de facto sovereignty’ over West Bank ends future Palestinian state: minister

A top Israeli official said on Tuesday that measures adopted by the government that deepen Israeli control in the occupied West Bank amounted to implementing “de facto sovereignty”, using language that mirrors critics’ warnings about the intent behind the moves. The steps “actually establish a fact on the ground that there will not be a Palestinian state,” Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Israel’s...
Why Asean must stay nimble to survive US-China trade squeeze

Asean faces a challenge to remain relevant in light of an increasingly transactional United States under the Donald Trump administration, observers warn, even as they hail the bloc’s large inflows of trade from global superpowers. At the South China Morning Post’s China Conference: Southeast Asia 2026 in Jakarta on Tuesday, chairman of Malaysian Investment Development Authority Tengku Zafrul...
Indonesia’s economy tipped to gain from deeper mainland China, Hong Kong ties

Indonesia’s economy stands to gain from its partnership with mainland China and Hong Kong through increased investments and lessons learned from improving capital markets, industry insiders and observers have said. Shinta Kamdani, coordinating vice-chairwoman for human development, culture and sustainable development at the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), on Tuesday pointed...
Next US-China trade talks tipped in advance of Trump-Xi summit as fragile truce holds

Any coming high-level trade talks between Beijing and Washington will be in preparation for US President Donald Trump’s visit to China in April, analysts say, as both sides wish to keep a fragile trade truce intact, even though significant breakthroughs in the bilateral relationship remain up in the air. On Monday evening in the US, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent posted on social media...
Indonesia turns to digital finance to reach unbanked population

Indonesia, home to one of the world’s largest unbanked and underbanked populations, is pushing to enhance financial inclusion. “In Indonesia, the role of digitalisation is essential,” said Kartika Wirjoatmodjo, chairman of the board and president commissioner at PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia, at the China Conference: Southeast Asia 2026 in Jakarta on Tuesday. PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia is the oldest...