From a smuggling ring in Chile to rare earth wrangling in Brazil, here are highlights from the SCMP’s foreign correspondents in March 2026.
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Battery Storage Grew 66% In 2025. China Now Controls Nearly Half
The perils of falling in love as a Communist Party member in China
How an icy shipping route at the top of the world is bringing China and Russia together
Goldman Sachs picks China stocks poised to benefit from a new wave of AI-related hardware exports
Maye Musk Backs Elon’s ‘China Is Awesome’ Take: Here’s Why She Enjoys Going There
Nokia has big enterprise biz plans in China
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Why Beijing now wants its spies executed in Taiwan to come in from decades in the cold
Mainland China is seeing a surge in interest over ‘invisible martyrs’ such as Wu Shi, a KMT defector who was executed in Taipei in 1950 Fujian province, the closest mainland Chinese province to Taiwan …
China’s chemical export ban threatens to spark ‘global supply shock’ and send food prices soaring
A Chinese export ban on chemicals crucial for fertilisers could spark a “global supply shock” and send food prices soaring, analysts have warned. Farmers are already facing inflated bills as a result …
China has now dropped tariffs on imports from every African country except one
The country not eligible is the small nation of Eswatini because it is the only one in Africa that maintains formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
Facebook Fight Shows Beijing Determined To Keep Chinese AI Out Of US
Manus moved its headquarters and key personnel to Singapore last year in anticipation of this move, becoming the latest in a stream of tech firms to set up shop there. The Southeast Asian city state …
FCC votes for further crackdown on Chinese telcos and tech
The US regulator is getting closer to blocking China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom from running US datacentresFCC will also consider banning …
China to expand Tiangong with three new modules toward 180-ton capacity as ISS winds down
China is moving to dramatically expand its Tiangong space station, a step that could reshape the balance of power in low Earth orbit as NASA prepares to retire the International Space Station (ISS) by 2031,
China has now dropped tariffs on imports from every African country except 1
A China policy giving Africa’s biggest economies tariff-free access to its market for the next two years has come into effect.
Beijing’s Drone Ban Goes Into Effect Today: A New Model for Urban UAV Control
China’s capital targets sales, storage, and transport as well as operations, raising questions for global drone policy Beijing has introduced one of the most comprehensive drone control regimes seen …
From banking to AI, these are the key international economic bodies based in China
Amid what China sees as US’ polarising unilateral measures, a push for ‘global governance’ gives rise to a network of multi-country agencies.
The Battle for Truth: How Beijing Rewrote the COVID-19 Narrative
Since the onset of COVID-19 in Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party has engaged in a campaign to control the narrative surrounding the pandemic. Utilising propaganda and censorship, China aimed to …
China reveals 198-ton ‘six-module’ plan for Tiangong space station as ISS era ends
The US-China space race is set to intensify on the orbital front. With the …
No-drone zone: DJI, consumers grapple with Beijing sales ban and registration rule
A sweeping rule change for drones in Beijing, which bars sales in the Chinese capital and requires identity registration linked to each device from Friday, has left sellers and consumers scrambling to …
