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More Asian internet users are influenced by far-right causes including white supremacism in the digital age. Listen to Post reporter Kimberly Lim explain more about the ‘anti-woke’ movement’s slow creep in the region, while experts Munira Mustaffa, Jo Krishnakumar and Rizky Rahad ...  Show more

How does a country deepen its relationship and do business with China without risking retaliation by the US and its allies? How can a nation protect its territorial claims in the South China Sea yet maintain a delicate balancing act with its neighbours with their own views and cl ...  Show more

After much back and forth it looks like the planets are aligning, and the momentum moving firmly towards a “mini-deal” between the United States and China. Over the weekend, the Office of the US Trade Representative and Chinese state media organ Xinhua both published statements s ...  Show more

One week after the handshakes, photo ops and press conferences in Washington, we analyse whether there was really a trade deal struck between the US and China, or whether the dignitaries just kicked the can down the road. South China Morning Post political economy editors Zhou Xi ...  Show more

After months of anticipation for high-level trade talks between delegations from China and the United States, who could have foreseen this week’s run of controversies, from the NBA and computer game giant Blizzard to bans on Chinese tech companies operating in Xinjiang? The South ...  Show more