Asian equities were largely higher despite President Trump's rising tariff rhetoric, except for India, which underperformed today and this week. The resilience is a great sign, in my opinion. Hong Kong and Mainland China ended a good week on a positive note despite a late afternoon slump that brought the market off its intraday highs.

Authors warn that normalising the humanoid technology could lead to ‘indiscriminate killings and accidental deaths’

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet with China’s leader Xi Jinping on an upcoming trip he said Friday would focus on closer business ties. Albanese departs Saturday for the trip that includes stops in Beijing,

China has been a fierce critic of sweeping U.S. tariffs that Trump announced on April 2. He later delayed the implementation of most but China, which has said it will respond with its own tariffs on U.S. imports, now faces a deadline next month to negotiate a deal.

China may finally be waking up to the economic drag caused by its unchecked industrial price wars. In recent weeks, top officials including President Xi Jinping have publicly acknowledged the damage from oversupply and cutthroat competitionespecially in sectors like steel,

Xi Jinping skips BRICS Summit for the first time amid speculation of political turbulence in China and divisions between member nations over trade and strategic interests

The notion that Xi Jinping is about to be toppled is a distraction from the real cleavages in Chinese politics.

Sometimes it was thirty-six hours. Other times it was seventy hours. Or maybe it was ninety-some hours,” write the authors of “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost