A Voice of the Unheard Saturday, October 10, 2026
Different times, shared hearts — the phrase fits, but the story underneath it is older and stranger than any summit communiqué. With a Chinese and an American leader due to sit down together in Washington, each hoping to locate common ground and some room to cooperate, attention naturally settles on what passes between two governments....
The 134.2-kilometre waterway gives southwest China a direct route to the sea, cutting more than 560 km of inland shipping and an estimated 18% to 30% off logistics costs — with ASEAN economies set to feel the ripple effects. When the Pinglu Canal opened in southern China on September 16, it did far more than...
Wind farms on the Kazakh steppe, salt-tolerant shrubs on the dried Aral seabed and electric buses on Punjab’s roads point to a shared bet — that cutting carbon and growing an economy need not be opposing goals. Member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) are navigating a common challenge: how to sustain economic development...