This Month
Why Fed-obsessed US traders are ignoring China’s soaring sharemarket
The Asian giant’s stunning equity market surge has registered with US traders, underlining China’s limited role as an engine for America’s economy.
- Lu Wang and Yiqin Shen
September
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
The ASX’s ‘switch from hell’ has only just begun
The dominance of the banks over the miners in 2024 has been off the charts. But developments out of Beijing could be the catalyst for a final quarter comeback.
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Did China fire the bazooka to stop the big bank run?
If it takes a bazooka to stimulate the Chinese economy, it will also take a bazooka to end the banks’ run.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Exclusive
- Technology & democracy
China and Russia want to rule the Web. The West is trying to stop them
In backrooms at the UN in New York, a battle is quietly being fought between liberal democracies and authoritarian governments over who rules the internet.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Pacific diplomacy
Quad on shaky ground as US election nears
Leaders including Anthony Albanese insist the security dialogue will survive once Joe Biden leaves office, but the weekend’s outcomes suggest otherwise.
- Matthew Cranston
Biden backs Australian critical minerals miner Ioneer in Nevada
Approving the new project will significantly increase domestic lithium supply amid a push toward greater self-reliance in the critical minerals supply chain.
- Matthew Cranston
- Exclusive
- Defence
Worries over China help Australia find unlikely allies
A top German navy commander is keen to work more with Australia, as Russia and China deepen their own maritime co-operation.
- Andrew Tillett
Chinese property crash no threat to Australia, says diplomat
Beijing’s number two diplomat in Canberra says Australia’s miners should rest easy – there’s plenty of growth left in China’s urbanisation.
- Andrew Tillett
US accuses China of directly supporting Russia’s ‘war machine’
Kurt Campbell said China was supplying Moscow with items that were directly helping the Russian military as it prosecutes its war of aggression in Ukraine.
- Henry Foy, Polina Ivanova, Kathrin Hille and Demetri Sevastopulo
King to foreigners: start digging for critical minerals
Industrialised countries including Australia will be more interventionist in directing investment to strategic resources projects to break China’s stranglehold.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Australia’s China problem is bigger than we think
Look past the renewed pressure on iron ore prices. China needs radical surgery that its leaders appear reluctant to deliver. A prolonged period of pain looks likely.
- Updated
- James Thomson
Secrets of an unassuming NY official accused of working for China
Charges against Linda Sun are the latest in the efforts of the US Justice Department to stop efforts by the Chinese government to secretly wield its influence in the country.
- Hurubie Meko, Benjamin Oreskes and Nicholas Fandos
- Exclusive
- Foreign relations
Japanese fighter jets fly to Darwin as security ties ramp up for China
Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa warns the world is at “a turning point” as she heads to Australia for defence and diplomatic talks.
- Andrew Tillett
Deterrence key to preventing war with China: Rudd
It needs to be made clear to Beijing that military adventurism comes at a high price, the Australian ambassador to the US told the AFR Asia Summit.
- Andrew Tillett
Mystery investor raises questions about Northern Minerals divestment
Labor forced the miner’s largest investor, a China-linked fund, to sell its shares. A Hong Kong-registered firm with almost no corporate history bought up.
- Brad Thompson
- Exclusive
- Asia-Pacific
Wong’s rallying cry to region over US-China tensions
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the Indo-Pacific needs to work collectively to manage relations between the US and China.
- Andrew Tillett
Why ex-Google chief Eric Schmidt warns we may have to pull plug on AI
The former Google chief executive and chairman said Western democracies had to regain lost ground in industrial policy to counter China.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
Why ‘paranoid’ Russia’s ties with China should worry Australia
Democracies including Australia need to band together against the ‘community of autocracies’ of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, one of NATO’s top officials says.
- Andrew Tillett
August
- Analysis
- Pacific diplomacy
Drinks and power moves: Inside a week of Pacific diplomacy
At the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga, Taiwan booked out the only rooftop bar, China waited in the wings and Australia kept the show on the road.
- Andrew Tillett
US, Chinese officials to wrap up talks on Taiwan, military
US National Security Adviser says the meeting is a “rare” event, and that both countries have a responsibility to prevent competition from veering into conflict.
- Trevor Hunnicutt