The president of Timor-Leste shares his opinions on issues such as infrastructure cooperation between China and Timor-Leste, Timor-Leste's commitment to ASEAN and the impact of the peaceful rise of China.

Military leaders and senior defense officials are gathering in Singapore for this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue. The event has drawn over 550 representatives from over 40 countries and regions. What to expect from this primary security summit in Asia?

Beijing has been rolling out measures to boost consumer spending amid a challenging global economic landscape. Is China’s domestic consumption underestimated? Will it grow in the coming years? And what is the new reality of the country's consumer market?

The first-ever trilateral meeting of ASEAN, the GCC and China has taken place in Malaysia. What’s the key message at this landmark summit? And what does closer cooperation between countries from different regions say about future trade and investment in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape?

For months, U.S. President Donald Trump has been embroiled in a battle with Harvard University over allegations of anti-Semitism. Research funding has been cut, foreign students have been banned, and Trump has threatened to redirect a further 3 billion dollars in future grants to trade schools. Is this a fight for student safety or a political assault on elite institutions? Can the U.S. government dictate who private universities admit? And will the U.S. continue to be the destination for international scholars?

Israel is coming under increasing international pressure as it expands military action in Gaza and claims full control of the enclave as the goal. After mounting criticism of the 11-week-long blockade, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally allowed in limited food, which he says is only to appease his supporters in the U.S. How severe is the humanitarian crisis in Gaza now? And as more Western countries issue stronger condemnations of Israel, will President Donald Trump remain a firm Netanyahu supporter?

The 4th China-Central and Eastern European Countries Expo has kicked off in Ningbo. Hosting more than 400 exhibitors and showcasing over 8,000 products from Central and Eastern Europe, the expo expects to exceed 10 billion yuan, or about 1.4 billion dollars, in imports and purchase intentions from the region. How significant is the event? What can we expect out of the expo? And what does it say about the status of cooperation between the two sides?

Moody's has downgraded the U.S. credit rating, pointing to years of ballooning debt. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing for more tax cuts — likely to pile on even more debt. What does this downgrade mean for the U.S. economy and its global standing? How is Washington managing its rising deficit? And what role are global tariffs and uncertainty playing in all this?

We speak with Global Managing Director Denis Depoux of Roland Berger and President Jens Eskelund of EU Chamber of Commerce in China on U.S. tariffs and the wider China-EU relations.

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are back in Istanbul, returning to the same place where they held talks three years ago at the onset of the Ukraine crisis. What are the priorities for both parties? Can we expect any meaningful progress this time? And perhaps the most pressing question of all—are we nearing an end to the conflict?