Trading Avocadoes for Political Influence 
How banking giant ICBC helped Chinese firms gain a foothold in Europe’s wind market 
A reclusive billionaire, a ‘fearless’ dealer and a globe-spanning feud over priceless art Middle East war drives 35% rise in Hongkongers’ overseas help requests
Hongkongers’ requests for help from overseas jumped 35 per cent in the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same period last year, the…
Samantha Johnson
A Moral Monstrosity: Yet More Blood, Hate, Grief
The latest of thousands of innocent victims of the regime’s brutish, inhuman ethnic cleansing carnage, Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old Haitian honor student, soccer…
Talk is growing of a Tesla-SpaceX merger. Will geopolitics throw a spanner in the works?
One by one, Tesla Model Y Ls roll out of the company’s end-of-line inspection bays, gleaming in black, white and gold. They are a mix…
What Sputnik couldn’t do to American science, Beijing has
The US government owns 9.9 per cent of Intel, converted out of US Chips Act grants, alongside a golden share in US Steel, US$400 million…
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
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