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Police carries bodies of victims out of Wang Fuk Court.

In Hong Kong, tragedy fuels a national security crackdown

The Wang Fuk Court towers were still smouldering when Hong Kong authorities shifted gear from crisis to crackdown.

  • Lisa Visentin

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Photos taken from the LinkedIn profiles of Amanda Qiu, the chief executive of BR-YR Executive Search, and Shirly Shen, co-founder of the Internship Union.

The two women at centre of Britain’s latest Chinese spy fears

The agents are using LinkedIn to reach out to possible sources they can exploit for information, MI5 told British MPs in a written alert.

  • David Crowe
Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

I survived Tiananmen Square. Seeing Dan Andrews in Beijing made my blood boil

Thirty-five years ago, two of my friends died in my arms. Andrews has prostituted himself to a murderous regime.

  • Helen Shao
Composite index image for the Solomon Kings Football Club.

After PNG, Australia’s soft power game with China extends to Solomons

Just like PNG’s NRL team, a new Brisbane-backed Solomon Islands soccer club could become an unlikely arena in Australia’s geopolitical rivalry with China.

  • Cameron Atfield
Guan Yin Citta Buddhist association leader, Master Jun Hong Lu. Lu died in 2021.

‘Rudd was Chinese’: The strange beliefs of the fringe group allegedly targeted by Beijing

Former PM Kevin Rudd was a Chinese man in a past life, according to a Buddhist group allegedly targeted by the Chinese Communist Party.

  • Nick Newling and Brittany Busch
Former prime minister Scott Morrison speaks to a Select Committee on China hearing in Washington on Wednesday (Thursday AEST).

Australians ‘going to sleep’ on China threat, Morrison tells US Congress

In a rare congressional appearance by a former government leader, Scott Morrison warned US lawmakers they must never become casual about the threat posed by Beijing, and to remain vigilant.

  • Michael Koziol
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Richard Huang, who requested his identity be concealed with a pseudonym, promotes Beijing funded trips to Taiwanese youth.

‘Aren’t you worried you are being brainwashed?’ The junket that left Richard’s friends on edge

The discounted tour to China included four-star hotels, nightly banquets, and speeches about being “one big family”.

  • Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
Myanmar scam compounds

Caught in a $60b scam, these workers tried to flee but the soldiers were waiting

It starts with a fake job ad and a free plane ticket to Bangkok. But when you cross into Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, you realise what you’ve walked into.

  • Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty
Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the prime minister’s address to the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Wong weaponises Liberal ‘Chinese spies’ gaffe in battle for vote

Concerns about the risk of Chinese government influence have bedevilled all sides in this election as parties vie for the key voter group.

  • Max Maddison, Paul Sakkal and Kayla Olaya
Vietnamese American Amanda Nguyen.

There’s a reason some Vietnamese restaurants fly a yellow flag, others a red

Duality lives in the bones of my generation divided by conflict: in the way elders hoard plastic bags like wartime rations, in the hesitation when hearing a northern accent.

  • Jenny Tran

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