About Asia

By South China Morning Post

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aa zz
 Oct 29, 2021
Fairly interesting. Definately changed after the national secuirty law did. But if you want to feel in real time how hong kong is changing.

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Let’s talk… About Asia by looking deep into the stories unfolding on the world’s most populous continent. Each episode showcases the reportage of SCMP’s journalists across Asia and in-depth interviews with experts, putting context and analysis to current affairs.

Episode Date
Unravelling China and India’s roles in the US fentanyl crisis
Apr 12, 2024
Will Japan give Oppenheimer a chance?
Mar 26, 2024
Why India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is so controversial
Mar 20, 2024
Why Japan’s yakuza crime groups are on the verge of disappearing
Mar 15, 2024
Inside China: What if Trump wins?
Mar 05, 2024
Ageing and fertility: why Asian women are freezing their eggs
Mar 04, 2024
Why the Philippines’ Duterte-Marcos alliance is disintegrating
Feb 22, 2024
How Indonesia’s ‘TikTok general’ Prabowo won the presidential race
Feb 16, 2024
Taylor Swift, Coldplay spark concert tourism boom in Southeast Asia
Feb 08, 2024
Is North Korea preparing for war?
Feb 05, 2024
Coming soon: China and the Russia-Ukraine War, one year on
Feb 23, 2023
‘Wolf Warrior’ diplomacy defanged; Tokyo, Seoul join the US tech war; is China easing Australia sanctions?
Jan 13, 2023
Analysing China’s ties with the US, EU, UK, and Philippines in 2023
Jan 06, 2023
Xi’s Arab-China summit; Biden’s TSMC pivot in Arizona and EU EV diplomacy
Dec 10, 2022
Europe juggles China-US relations amid rising anger over Biden’s policies; analysing Jiang Zemin’s legacy
Dec 02, 2022
Xi at G20: the optics and politics of China post-Covid as Ukraine war rages
Nov 17, 2022
Asean preview: Myanmar crisis and US-China rivalry; China expands private security firms overseas
Nov 04, 2022
New US tech sanctions hit China, South Korea, Taiwan; Germany's port in a storm
Oct 28, 2022
Is the US preparing for war over Taiwan? Why the historic Japan-Australia defence, energy deal matters
Oct 24, 2022
US names China ‘biggest threat’, announces global bans on tech; Philippines and US-China rivalry
Oct 14, 2022
China’s UN victory over Xinjiang report; US plans more tech sanctions; Taiwan’s new ‘red line’
Oct 07, 2022
China reacts to US Pacific deal; beyond US-China geopolitics binary logic
Sep 30, 2022
Analysing China at the UN: Ukraine, Xinjiang, climate change and a rules-based order
Sep 27, 2022
Frosty China-India relations at the UN and BRICS; how Russia is losing Central Asia to China
Sep 23, 2022
The politics of Xi meeting Putin; the EU targets China on forced labour, rare earths and influence
Sep 16, 2022
Xi and Putin's gas deal; Xi's multi-nation talks in Uzbekistan; Liz Truss and her China policy
Sep 09, 2022
UN vs China over Xinjiang report; drones over Taiwan; Japan wary of Russia’s Vostok exercise
Sep 05, 2022
Behind the US-Taiwan trade deal; the UK steps up its China policies amid a PM talent show
Aug 19, 2022
Taiwan tension: Beijing’s white paper, Washington’s new Act and Europe’s reactions
Aug 12, 2022
Pelosi, Taipei and Beijing: US, Europe, Asia respond; what’s next for Xi Jinping?
Aug 05, 2022
The reality of Xi and Biden's call; US-China tensions and the Thucydides Trap
Jul 29, 2022
Pelosi and Taiwan, Biden to call Xi; Indonesia invests in Beijing diplomacy
Jul 26, 2022
Beijing and Sri Lankan debt; can the US enlist the Dutch in China tech war?
Jul 15, 2022
Shinzo Abe's complex legacy with China; Wang Yi and a new Australian paradigm
Jul 12, 2022
Analysing the US-China G20 agenda; after four years of trade war - what now?
Jul 07, 2022
Biden in Asia, Beijing's anger over Quad and Taiwan; what the IPEF means for Asian nations
May 20, 2022
A new President Marcos in the Philippines; the science of South China Sea fishing bans
May 20, 2022
Analysing Biden's ASEAN summit; China and Japan court South Korea’s new president amid NATO plans
May 13, 2022
US tech war targets Hikvision; China wedges Australia on Solomon Islands
May 06, 2022
Analysing the Beijing-Solomon Islands deal; EU sharpens China trade policies; UN heads to Xinjiang
Apr 29, 2022
China’s strategic Solomon Island win, loss for Australia; PLA studies Ukraine war
Apr 22, 2022
EU anger at Beijing boils over Ukraine; Serbia and Hungary look to China for trade and weapons
Apr 14, 2022
A pivotal China-EU summit; Russian FM Sergei Lavrov in China; Japan's fraught Russia-China relations
Apr 01, 2022
China’s diplomacy surge: Wang Yi visits India; Xi calls South Korea's new president
Mar 25, 2022
China faces ‘defining moment’ over Russia ties; Xi-Biden and Beijing’s TV diplomacy
Mar 22, 2022
The EU-China diplomatic flurry; Russian banks buy yuan; Beijing's UN tightrope act
Mar 11, 2022
Two Sessions: Wang Yi and China’s foreign policy on Ukraine, EU, South Korea and Japan
Mar 10, 2022
China's UN vote on Ukraine; what Beijing knew of Putin's plans; EU call China to broker peace
Mar 04, 2022
Ukraine-China diplomacy; Chinese banks eye Swift bans and tech giants wary after Russia’s move
Mar 02, 2022
Ukraine crisis: China’s Russia-EU balancing act, Taiwan Strait tensions and anxiety
Feb 25, 2022
Analysing Xi’s Olympic summit; US and Australia rethink trade with China
Feb 11, 2022
Putin meets Xi in Beijing; Japan’s human rights push for Hong Kong and Xinjiang
Feb 04, 2022
How the US Competition Act is all about China; EU calls in the WTO over Beijing's Lithuania trade embargo
Jan 28, 2022
Europe’s Hong Kong focus; Beijing’s Lithuania coercion; Japan and France align against China
Jan 21, 2022
Beijing meets with Iran, Turkey and oil-rich Gulf States; why Kazakhstan is vital to China
Jan 14, 2022
Europe and Japan respond to Beijing: 2021 in China relations part two
Dec 17, 2021
US, Xinjiang, Taiwan, tech and trade: China relations in 2021, part one
Dec 17, 2021
US vs China ‘democracy summits’; Beijing strong-arms Lithuania, EU fires back
Dec 10, 2021
Biden, Taiwan and a democracy summit; the US-China link to Solomon Islands riots
Dec 03, 2021
China vs Lithuania: inside the defacto Taiwan embassy opening amid the Belarus border crisis
Nov 26, 2021
Analysing the Xi-Biden summit; ASEAN and its change on China; US trying for a new trade deal?
Nov 19, 2021
US and China COP26 deal; Xi Jinping shapes history, dictates future of China
Nov 11, 2021
Taiwan agenda: US, EU versus China on recognition and relations; preview of G20 in Rome
Oct 29, 2021
China and Russia challenge Japan; Kevin Rudd on Aukus, China and war
Oct 22, 2021
Inside ground zero of Christmas supply chains; US-China vs UN Human Rights Council
Oct 15, 2021
Taiwan: airspace, troops and Oct 10; the EU shifts focus from China to Aukus
Oct 08, 2021
As US-China relations warm with Meng Wanzhou, EU-China ties chill over Taiwan
Oct 01, 2021
Xi vs Biden at the UN; the Quad meets; ASEAN AUKUS anxieties; China's nuclear policy reconsidered?
Sep 24, 2021
The new US-UK-Australia defence pact & China, EU respond; analysing Germany’s coming election
Sep 17, 2021
Kamala Harris in Singapore and Vietnam; India's changing US, China and Afghanistan relations
Aug 28, 2021
Beijing, the Taliban and Afghanistan; Malaysia’s political crisis and rising China tensions
Aug 20, 2021
China vs Lithuania, Taiwan; analysing China's growing military reach to Australia
Aug 13, 2021
Merkel's misstep with Beijing; analysing the South China Sea military buildup
Aug 06, 2021
US-China stalemate in Tianjin; Australia's US$1 billion bet to deny China in the Pacific
Jul 30, 2021
Xi Jinping, China and the United Nations, 50 years on: Professor Rosemary Foot
Jul 28, 2021
US-led alliance & China trade hacking claims ahead of top diplomatic meeting; geopolitics at the Olympics
Jul 23, 2021
Trailer: China Geopolitics
Jul 23, 2021
Biden's Hong Kong warning amid fears of web crackdown; Philippines, China & US tensions rise
Jul 16, 2021
Afghanistan and China's Belt & Road; Beijing's new rules on US IPO listings
Jul 09, 2021
Translating Xi's 'bloodied heads'; China's east Asian relations; EU sanctions and Hong Kong
Jul 02, 2021
Exposing American investment in Xinjiang; Beijing's new ambassador to the US
Jun 25, 2021
Beijing vs Biden in Europe: Nato, G7, B3W, vaccines and a global trade/tech council
Jun 18, 2021
G7 & Nato targets China; Beijing's anti-sanctions law vs US anti-China bill
Jun 11, 2021
EU-China deal frozen; Xi and Putin's renewed alliance; the US Endless Frontier Act vs China
May 21, 2021
UN members demand Xinjiang access; Covid-19 impacts China-India ties, global tech supply chain
May 13, 2021
G7 hones in on China, Beijing scraps talks with Australia, and why EU’s Hungary has Beijing’s back
May 07, 2021
India snubs Covid aid from Beijing, and Biden raises China-US rivalry in first 100 days speech
Apr 30, 2021
The Biden climate summit, Wen Jiabao gets censored, and will China miss Merkel?
Apr 23, 2021
Taiwan tension, military stand-off and silicon chips; Europe confronts Beijing debt and influence
Apr 16, 2021
Biden’s Beijing Winter Games boycott bluff and China’s role in a global corporate tax plan
Apr 09, 2021
Xinjiang sanctions explained: China weaponises consumers vs the West
Apr 02, 2021
Analysing the US-China Alaska meeting; EU to unleash sanctions on China over Xinjiang
Mar 20, 2021
What China's NPC decided; the US-China Alaska meeting; will the Quad be Asia's NATO?
Mar 12, 2021
Analysing China's NPC; focus on Hong Kong; in-depth with Reinhard Butikofer, European Parliament
Mar 07, 2021
China's Two Sessions preview, Biden's trade policy and the EU's China strategy
Feb 26, 2021
In conversation: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, new director-general for the WTO
Feb 17, 2021
Analysing China's new Covid-19 outbreak; the Myanmar coup and China, ASEAN and US reactions
Feb 05, 2021
Xi Jinping at Davos and global reaction; analysing the China-EU investment deal
Jan 29, 2021
China's economy grows, but at what cost? Biden's new appointees talk tough on Beijing
Jan 22, 2021
China gloats as Trump sows Capitol chaos; Beijing telco giants kicked off NYSE
Jan 08, 2021