Years after the string of pearls theory was coined, China has few ships, 1 base and no air cover across the Indian Ocean reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

The great Indo-Pacific hedge - deeper defence ties as US doubts grow and China ascends reut.rs/4uIWtbJ reut.rs/4uIWtbJ

The great Indo-Pacific hedge - deeper defence ties as US doubts grow and China ascends reut.rs/4dBYrV6 reut.rs/4dBYrV6

Philippines remains under threat from China despite Trump-Xi summit, minister says reut.rs/3PTrvyi reut.rs/3PTrvyi

Exclusive: Better China ties can help regional peace, security, Vietnam's top leader says reut.rs/4303Vmx reut.rs/4303Vmx

Fascinating comments from Lam on the high growth strategy - frank about the challenges but determined too.

Exclusive: Better China ties can help regional peace, security, Vietnam's top leader says reut.rs/3S9wiw8 reut.rs/3S9wiw8

Great to work with @GregTorode on my OSINT project unearthing these vast launch fields in the Xinjiang desert. Still many questions remain on the exact role of the octagons, located within the Lop Nur range adjacent to two of the PLA Rocket Force's new silo fields #IISS_SLD26

Fantastic article from Reuters - @vijdankawoosa, @lauriechenwords, and @GregTorode, with great work from @ANeill_Asia from @PacificForum, analyzing Chinese nuclear infrastructure developments. This time, identifying and examining 3 weird octagons. 1/2 reuters.com/graphics/CHINA-M…

China is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near its nuclear missile silos in the country’s northwestern desert, satellite imagery shows reut.rs/4aenKdy

RT @JessiePang0125: Dorz Cheung was at work when one of Hong Kong's deadliest fires broke out in November. Back inside his burnt home for t…

Nearly five months after a devastating blaze tore through Hong Kong's Wang Fuk Court residential complex, Jason Kong returned to his blackened apartment for the first time, looking for memories of his deceased dog reut.rs/4cuHNpO

Blackened walls, floors covered in ash and soot, and a ruined kitchen greeted Dorz Cheung when he returned to his fire-damaged apartment in Hong Kong, his first time back in months reut.rs/3OExOVQ

Exclusive: China moves to block entrance to disputed South China Sea shoal, images show - @GregTorode @karenlema Beijing newsroom, Clarence FERNANDEZ @Reuters reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

Glad to share some thoughts with @GregTorode on a development that is as bizarre as it is problematic.

A large Chinese military drone has conducted regular flights over the South China Sea in recent months while transmitting false transponder signals that made it appear to be other aircraft, including a sanctioned Belarusian cargo plane and a British Typhoon fighter jet. Military attaches and security analysts scrutinizing the operations say the flights represent a step-change in China's gray-zone tactics in the contested South China Sea and appear to be testing possible decoy capabilities in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan reut.rs/3ZXVlTF

Key perspectives from @OfficialBen_L @ameliairheart and @ANeill_Asia

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) welcomes Professor Ngô Bảo Châu, recipient of the 2010 Fields Medal, to join the Department of Mathematics under the Faculty of Science, commencing June 2026. Professor Ngô earned global recognition for his groundbreaking proof of the fundamental lemma in the Langlands Programme, a monumental achievement that solved a three-decade-old mathematical challenge and was named one of Time magazine's Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2009. The Langlands Programme, proposed by mathematician Robert Langlands in 1967, stands as one of mathematics' most ambitious theoretical frameworks, creating vital connections between number theory and group theory. For three decades, its fundamental lemma remained unproven until Professor Ngô's ingenious solution in 2009, which not only validated years of mathematical work but also opened new pathways within this profound theoretical structure. In 2010, Professor Ngô made history by becoming the first Vietnamese mathematician awarded the Fields Medal – mathematics' highest honour for researchers under 40. Along with the Abel Prize, these awards are widely regarded as the discipline's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. His transformative contributions to number theory and representation theory have had far-reaching implications across mathematical physics. His distinguished honours include the Clay Research Award (2004), Oberwolfach Prize (2007), Sophie Germain Prize (2007), and election as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012) and a Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences (2016). read more: hku.hk/press/press-releases/… #HKU #香港大學 #UniversityofHongKong

AI estimates the Xinjiang route could significantly cut extra fuel needs, help restore capacity trimmed on New York-Delhi and Vancouver-Delhi routes, and reduce weekly losses by about $1.13 million per week. Read the deep dive: tinyurl.com/59yjwhwx @GregTorode @Jamie_Freed

We’ve confirmed more details on what Trump said to Xi on jailed #HK tycoon and China critic Jimmy Lai, as int’l attention mounts ahead of his imminent verdict w/⁦@GregTorode⁩ ⁦@michaelvmartina⁩ reuters.com/business/media-t…

🔊 'It's been a long, long time since China has fought a war … so a lot of this equipment and technology is essentially operationally untested.' On Reuters World News, @GregTorode discusses the capabilities of China's new weapons reut.rs/4nc8cLu