Month: July 2025

This year marks half a century of formal diplomatic relations between China and the European Union as well as the 25th anniversary of the founding of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. In this series, the Post examines the ties between the two powers.   Updated: 23 Jul, 2025 South China Morning Post

This year marks half a century of formal diplomatic relations between China and the European Union, as well as the 25th anniversary of the founding of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. In this entry of our series examining ties between the two powers, Ji Siqi speaks to the chamber’s president about business sentiment in a tense period for global trade. Advertisement The president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China – the chief non-profit organisation advocating on behalf of the continent’s businesses – has said…

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Trouble in orbit? China’s Starlink rival faces long delays amid rocket shortage A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink for valuable orbital resources. 2. Why expectations are so low for both China and EU ahead of Beijing summit The return of Donald Trump was supposed to bring Europe and China together.…

China retained its leading position in the global shipbuilding market during the first half of the year, according to data from the industry association, despite a decline in market share caused by buyers’ concerns over the threat of US port fees on Chinese-built vessels. Advertisement It secured 68.3 per cent of new vessel orders in the global market in the first six months of the year, compared with 74.7 per cent in the same period last year, China’s shipbuilding industry association said on Monday. The order volume fell by 18.2…

Chinese aerospace engineers have a revolutionary software design that they say will allow them to overcome a major barrier to stealth aircraft development. Advertisement The new platform allows plane designers to have as many design variables as they want without increasing computing load – a feat long deemed impossible in aviation circles. The researchers described their innovation as breaking the “dimensionality curse” and used the US Navy’s X-47B, a demonstration stealth drone, to illustrate how the system worked. Once celebrated for its carrier landings and autonomous aerial refuelling, the X-47B…

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in 2007 that “Green is the new red, white and blue”, arguing that the United States could cement its leadership through clean technology. The ensuing decades have seen US political dysfunction turn that on its head. Now in 2025, he argues that US President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will only “make China great again”. Advertisement It’s not hard to see why he might think that. There is an intimate connection between generation capacity and national economic output. In a world driven by…