This Month
Australia, US, Japan to strengthen military ties in face of China threat
Defence ministers agreed to a new “commitment to consult” over regional security issues and invited Japanese troops to train in Darwin.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
October
Why these super-cheap flights to Europe could be under threat
Australians are prime beneficiaries of Chinese airlines’ ultra-low airfares to Europe. But the European carriers want Brussels to level up the playing field.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Exclusive
- Legal industry
King & Wood Mallesons global chief executive to step down
Sue Kench will depart at the end of the year and retire from the partnership next year, as the firm doubles down on its Sino-Australian alliance.
- Maxim Shanahan
Washington welcomes Kevin Rudd’s hardline views on Xi Jinping
Depicting China’s leader as an aggressive ideologue could help the former Australian prime minister in his ambassadorial role following the US election.
- Matthew Cranston
Albanese’s domestic solar manufacturing hero strikes China pact
The face of the federal government’s plan to build a domestic solar panel manufacturing industry has partnered with a Chinese giant in pursuit of Australian subsidies.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
Aussie gas will keep flowing, Albanese tells Japan
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his first face-to-face meeting with the new Japanese leader to talk up security of gas imports.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why Australia can’t keep relying on hopes of China stimulus
Beijing’s latest version of its stalling stimulus model will become another dead end. It’s time for Australia to make its own economy more adaptable.
- John Lee
Paladin’s $1.5b uranium deal slowed by national security probe
Canada has launched a national security probe into Paladin Energy’s proposed acquisition of Fission Uranium as Chinese partners try to influence the deal.
- Peter Ker
September
Friend or foe? Europe’s big Chinese EV dilemma
Bad news hasn’t been enough to get European carmakers and politicians to rethink their anti-China strategy. But that’s exactly what might need to happen.
- Hans van Leeuwen
August
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The number that should scare all Australians
You couldn’t blame Australia’s large cap fund managers for booking a post-reporting season trip to China to see the steel situation for themselves.
- Anthony Macdonald
China warns winter is coming for iron ore miners
Australian iron ore exporters believe their mines are resilient despite shares slumping to multi-year lows and Chinese steelmaker Baowu issuing a dire outlook.
- Peter Ker
Talks sanction more US bombers, fighter jets, spy planes in Australia
Annual defence and foreign affairs talks will see Australia deepen its role as the US’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in a potential conflict with China.
- Andrew Tillett and Matthew Cranston
Warnings over ASIO workload because of heightened terror threat
The ASIO chief admits the spy agency is “stretched” as it deals with twin challenges of politically motivated violence and foreign espionage.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Kim Beazley is utterly wrong, says Paul Keating
Former prime minister Paul Keating writes on WA’s risk from China; other writers on uranium mining in Jabiluka; Ismail Haniyeh’s death; lack of AUKUS transparency; and NSW eviction laws.
July
Australia doubles down on its subsea cable diplomacy in South Pacific
The rollout of undersea cables has become a major focus of the strategic competition between Western nations and China to gain influence in the Pacific.
- Updated
- Staff
AUKUS navy chiefs sound alarm over China, Russia, Iran collaboration
The head of the US Navy warns that “unfettered access” to the sea for trade is at risk from authoritarian countries dubbed the “axis of upheaval”
- Andrew Tillett
June
Calls to ban WeChat grow after Canberra clashes
Mandarin-language social media platform WeChat has banned coverage of clashes that broke out between Chinese Australians during Premier Li Qiang’s visit.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
Cheng Lei one day, PNG the next, zigzag diplomacy continues unabated
The circus of embassy staff trying to block vision of journalist Cheng Lei at a ceremony involving the visiting Chinese premier reinforces the difficulty of rebuilding relations with Beijing.
- Phillip Coorey
Enter the panda: China ramps up the soft power
Li Qiang”s visit is the first to Australia by a senior Chinese leader in seven years. On the surface, there will be emphasis on co-operation and mutual respect, but underneath tensions and suspicions remain.
- Andrew Tillett
LME failure on nickel due to its own self-interests: Rudd
The Australian ambassador says prices kept artificially low by China were creating a risk of a 20 per cent slump in global supply of the commodity.
- Matthew Cranston