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- Opinion
- Opinion
Biden’s quiet re-engagement with China could stop Middle East war
While it is hard to put a value on a dialogue that is unlikely to yield big breakthroughs, it’s easy to imagine the alternative.
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- Edward Luce
- Exclusive
- Anthony Albanese
Taiwan warns Albanese: Don’t be blindsided by China
Australia should use economic sanctions to punish Beijing if Taiwan is invaded, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says.
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- Michael Smith
Yesterday
China sacks defence minister who disappeared two months ago
General Li Shangfu has not been seen in public since August, and is the second minister to have mysteriously disappeared.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
This Month
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
More thawing needed to tempt Aussie bankers to Shanghai’s bars
A decade ago, a bankers’ roadshow wasn’t complete without a stop in the Chinese capital and financial hub. They were the good old days of restaurants in high places.
- Anthony Macdonald
How Xi’s Belt and Road went from pet project to debt bomb
Ten years after its launch, Xi Jinping’s $1 trillion infrastructure project now boasts about 150 members and has made China the world’s largest creditor.
- Michael Smith
Australia seeks to bolster South Korea, Japan defence ties
Richard Marles has met North Asian counterparts in Japan and South Korea amid rising tensions in the Middle East.
- Michael Smith
Xi, Putin pledge to ‘deepen trust’ in US swipe
Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin in Beijing to reinforce their ‘no limits’ friendship as the Israel-Hamas conflict escalates in the Middle East.
- Michael Smith
Five Eyes nations gather to fight China IP theft
Leaders of the Five Eyes intelligence agencies have gathered in Silicon Valley to call out China over intellectual property theft.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Opinion
Labor’s return to diplomacy freed Cheng Lei
If Scott Morrison was still prime minister, the detained Chinese-Australia journalist would not be back home in Melbourne.
- Geoff Raby
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
Investors have ‘nowhere left to hide’ from global shocks
The Israel-Hamas conflict adds to the growing list of geopolitical risks facing investors and companies globally, but are they awake to the world’s problems?
- Michael Smith
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Hamas apocalypse has crafted a new world order
For now, many believe that the disasters will be borne only by the populations of Israel and Gaza. But there are already signs of escalation.
- Peter Frankopan
China-Australia relationship improving, ambassador tells Vic Premier
China’s ambassador to Australia has told Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan the bilateral relationship is on the mend.
- Gus McCubbing
‘Israel is disappointed’: China’s Middle East dilemma
The superpower’s reluctance to condemn Hamas has angered Israel and hurt Beijing’s efforts to be seen as an alternative peacemaker throughout the region.
- Michael Smith
China denies Cheng was a political hostage
Beijing says the Australian journalist served out her full sentence under local laws, but Penny Wong describes her release as the result of “consistent advocacy”.
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
‘Tight hugs, teary screams’: Cheng Lei’s China nightmare ends
Cheng Lei’s three-year ordeal in a Beijing prison cell is over but China’s willingness to use people as pawns in a diplomatic game should not be forgotten.
- Michael Smith
Atlassian hit by Chinese state-linked hackers
US tech giant Microsoft has observed break-ins to companies through a vulnerability in Atlassian’s Confluence software since mid-September.
- Nick Bonyhady
US senators urge China to ease Middle East conflict
In a rare meeting with Xi Jinping, US senators called on China to do more to prevent conflict spreading in the Middle East following the Hamas attacks.
- Michael Smith
- Analysis
- Analysis
Why we’ve reached peak pessimism on China
Economists say China will survive the current property crisis, but faces long-term structural challenges which will hold back heady growth investors are used to.
- Michael Smith
September
- Opinion
- Australia's China challenge
China is steadily building an alternative world order
While it purports to steer clear of superpower competition, Beijing’s global governance initiative is driven by it, unfurling in a slow burn over more than a decade.
- Richard McGregor
How Xi Jinping is taking control of China’s stock exchange
By using listing and trading rules to direct capital into sectors that fit his priorities, the president wants the market to serve the state.
- Hudson Lockett and Cheng Leng
