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A photo released by South Korea’s Coast Guard showing Kwon’s jet-ski in Incheon in August 2023.

Why so many millionaires are fleeing China, by hook or by crook. Or by jet-ski

The rich and the connected have been doing it for years, getting out while they can before the political situation turns against them.

  • Peter Hartcher

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China’s ‘counter-historians’ challenging the Communist Party

Ian Johnson’s new book examines an underground historical movement that represents a genuine challenge to the Chinese Communist Party.

  • Kurt Johnson
“You need to live your life to the fullest. Take every day that comes as if it’s your last.”

‘We both have to face reality’: The extra blow on top of Li Cunxin’s health scare

The artistic director of Queensland Ballet on his decision to focus on his family.

  • Benjamin Law
Tianjiayu villager Liu Huaisheng.

Liu lives in a crumbling village. Nearby a compound of luxury villas remain untouched

Rural China is being left behind and residents have accused Beijing of covering up a deep economic divide.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Sun Xun’s Magic of Atlas, The Magician Comes to Luocha (2020)

Selfie anyone? The spectacular Sydney show that evokes a lost art

Today’s audiences are looking for an instant hit, not a slowly unfolding epic. In an age of communications we are swiftly becoming illiterate.

  • John McDonald
Chinese President Xi Jinping

Dire prospects if Australia lets China ties unravel

We must seek to build a regional constituency so we become a crucial player in Asia.

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‘Untouchable’: How Xi Jinping became more powerful than Mao Zedong

The Chinese president’s power is now absolute within China, eclipsing even the authority of the founder of the People’s Republic himself, Mao Zedong.

  • Peter Hartcher
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Who is Xi Jinping, the world’s most powerful politician?

Once a princeling, Xi spent his teenage years living in a cave. Now he is the longest-serving leader of China since the ’70s. How did he do it? And what are his plans for China?

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Former Chinese top leader Hu Jintao was unexpectedly led out of the closing ceremony of a major meeting of China’s ruling Communist Party on Saturday.

Manhandled and erased: Confusion surrounds Hu’s ignominious exit from Xi’s stage

The undignified removal of the former Chinese president suggests it was a display of Xi Jinping’s powerful grip on the country.

  • Con Coughlin
Don’t expect Xi Jinping to admit the COVID policy was a mistake, despite the social misery and economic damage it is causing.

After Xi is anointed, most of China will have one wish

COVID fatigue, distress and anger has set in across China but its citizens are powerless to end a policy that has crippled large parts of its economy.

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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