2 h. ago Malaysia faces judicial void as chief justice set to retire without successor

Malaysia’s judiciary faces a leadership vacuum as Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat prepares to step down on Wednesday without a successor named – a gap lawyers warn could undermine judicial independence and public trust. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration has opted not to extend the tenure of Tengku Maimun or Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim, the president of the Court of Appeal, both of whom reach the mandatory retirement age of 66 this week. The constitution allows for a six-month...

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11 h. ago Trump’s Golden Dome: will the numbers add up to deter China in the Indo

America’s view of China as a “pacing threat” has shaped its defence priorities as the military seeks to maintain an edge over a rapidly modernising PLA. In the first of a three-part series on how US budget tensions will affect efforts to deter China, we look at the Golden Dome missile defence system. China’s expanding military footprint in the Indo-Pacific is now a focus of America’s defence strategy, with a renewed emphasis on space-based capabilities since Donald Trump returned to the White...

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21 h. ago Why China sees US trade deals with partners as a threat – and how it could react

Beijing has renewed its warning to other countries not to strike deals with the United States on terms that come at China’s expense – ahead of Washington’s looming deadline to conclude tariff negotiations with most of its trade partners. Chinese officials are concerned that nations from Europe to Southeast Asia may enter into trade agreements with the US that divert supply chains, reduce bilateral trade with China or compel governments to exit Beijing-led projects, analysts said on Monday. “The...

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69 h. ago Beijing’s celestial ambitions: China’s space tech boom rattles US defences, reshapes kill chain threat

Beijing’s celestial ambitions: China’s space tech boom rattles US defences, reshapes kill chain threat  Business Today

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4 d. ago China’s space military tech ‘threat’, EU and rare earths: SCMP daily highlights

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. China moving ‘breathtakingly fast’ in space military tech: US general China is moving “breathtakingly fast” in space military technologies and posing strategic threats to the United States, America’s top space force official said on Tuesday. 2. US-China trade deal is near, expert says: ‘they are going to stabilise this’ The United States and China could...

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5 d. ago China moving ‘breathtakingly fast’ in space military tech: US general

China is moving “breathtakingly fast” in space military technologies and posing strategic threats to the United States, America’s top space force official said on Tuesday. USSF Commander General Stephen Whiting voiced concern about Beijing’s growing capabilities in three areas, echoing previous American warnings about a Chinese space-based “kill chain”. “That is very concerning,” Whiting told military website Breaking Defence. The general’s remarks came as space-based capabilities have played a...

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5 d. ago UK minister warned of threat from China when Chagos deal expires

UK minister warned of threat from China when Chagos deal expires  politico.eu

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5 d. ago New viruses discovered in bats in China could be the next pandemic threat

New viruses discovered in bats in China could be the next pandemic threat  ScienceDaily

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6 d. ago China’s top security agency mocks CIA informant drive: ‘farcical’

China’s top intelligence agency says a recent CIA campaign aimed at recruiting informants from China is a sign the US spy agency is desperately looking for ways to survive as Washington slashes budgets. “Yet, as resources shrink, the CIA has doubled down on hyping the ‘China threat’ as its lifeline, peddling fear to Congress and taxpayers to carve out a larger slice of the budget pie,” the Ministry of State Security (MSS) said in an article published on Wednesday on its official WeChat...

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6 d. ago ‘Peddling fear’: China’s top security agency mocks CIA Chinese informant drive

China’s top intelligence agency says a recent CIA campaign aimed at recruiting informants from China while hyping up the “China threat” is a sign the US spy agency is desperately looking for ways to survive Washington’s budget cuts. “As resources shrink, the CIA has doubled down on hyping the ‘China threat’ as its lifeline, peddling fear to Congress and taxpayers to carve out a larger slice of the budget pie,” the Ministry of State Security (MSS) said in an article published on Wednesday on its...

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6 d. ago Communist China is 'biggest geopolitical threat' US faces for the next century: Ted Cruz

Communist China is 'biggest geopolitical threat' US faces for the next century: Ted Cruz  Fox Business

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7 d. ago EU needs rare earths strategic reserves against China threat

EU needs rare earths strategic reserves against China threat  Mining Weekly

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7 d. ago EU needs rare earths strategic reserves against China threat, commissioner tells paper

EU needs rare earths strategic reserves against China threat, commissioner tells paper  Reuters

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1 week ago 'Chinese threat' that made Donald Trump make deal with China is now worrying TV, speaker, smartwatch and

'Chinese threat' that made Donald Trump make deal with China is now worrying TV, speaker, smartwatch and  Times of India

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1 week ago China’s ghost flights to Iran vanish from radar as war threat looms

China’s ghost flights to Iran vanish from radar as war threat looms  Interesting Engineering

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1 week ago America's Iran dilemma: How to strike Fordow without losing sight of China threat

America's Iran dilemma: How to strike Fordow without losing sight of China threat  Fox News

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1 week ago Trump’s Envoy to China Calls Out Threat of Foreign Supply Chains

Trump’s Envoy to China Calls Out Threat of Foreign Supply Chains  Bloomberg

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2 w. ago Pentagon chief warns China preparing for war, calls Beijing top US threat

Pentagon chief warns China preparing for war, calls Beijing top US threat  Business Standard

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3 w. ago Thanks to Trump, US threat of a ‘peaceful evolution’ recedes for China

As someone born in the 1960s in China, one of the earliest lessons our generation learned in school was to be vigilant about the perceived dangers of American conspiracies and attempts aimed at subverting and overthrowing the Communist Party through peaceful means. Through classroom teachings, propaganda films and slogans plastered prominently along the streets, we were repeatedly exposed to Chairman Mao Zedong’s warnings about the threat of “peaceful evolution”, encapsulated in his assertion...

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3 w. ago Opinion | Thanks to Trump, US threat of a ‘peaceful evolution’ recedes for China

Opinion | Thanks to Trump, US threat of a ‘peaceful evolution’ recedes for China  South China Morning Post

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