In this paper, we analyze the Cauchy problem for the two-component Camassa–Holm (2CH) system in weighted Sobolev spaces, achieving two key results. First, we establish a new irregular Riemann–Hilbert (RH) problem, without the normalization conditions, for the associated Cauchy problem. Second, we identify six main asymptotic sectors in the space–time region and derive the leading-order asymptotics for these sectors using the