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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China fires back at Trump with 34 per cent tariffs on American goods

Beijing’s most comprehensive response to date in the ratcheting tariff exchange signals it has no intention of surrendering to the US president’s punitive trade measures.

  • Lisa Visentin

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Trump’s tariffs have delivered a massive political advantage to China, Peter Hartcher says.

Trump delivers ‘huge advantage’ to China with self-destructive tariffs

China may be facing a 34 per cent economic penalty on exports, but Peter Hartcher says the US president has handed Xi Jinping a big favour on a silver platter.

  • Peter Hartcher
The presence of Chinese research vessel, Tan Suo Yi Hao, tracking a route far off the south coast of Australia has generated days of political debate and prompted Beijing to deny that it is seeking to influence the federal election.

Beijing denounces spy vessel claims as smear campaign

Beijing has rebuffed suggestions that it is seeking to influence the federal election after one of its research vessels travelled past Australia’s southern coast.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Australians are clear on our biggest threats. But our leaders don’t want to discuss it

Voters want to know what the contenders for the prime ministership will do to protect the national interest. Neither Albanese nor Dutton so far have any answers for them.

  • Peter Hartcher
Fast food workers at Chinese burger chain Tastien prepare orders at a store in Beijing.

Made in China burger and fries has a side of nationalism

I went to a Tastien fast food outlet to try the burger that’s designed to knock McDonald’s and KFC off their Beijing perch. Some come here just for the buns.

  • Lisa Visentin
America, led by Donald Trump (pictured here with Xi Jinping in 2019), is becoming more like China at a rapid rate.

Peter Hartcher on how Trump is remaking America in China’s image

A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.

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US stocks suffered the worst two-day drop since December amid escalating trade tensions.

The Trump turmoil has handed China a golden opportunity

Xi Jinping has raced to take advantage of the increased uncertainty sparked by Donald Trump.

  • Chris Price

Day by day, Trump’s America becomes more like Xi’s China

The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing’s repressive controls.

  • Peter Hartcher
The Kremlin’s focus on the Arctic comes as melting ice, triggered by global warming, prompts fresh tensions with the US and Beijing over control of new shipping routes, fishing rights and military outposts.

Ice king: Why Vladimir Putin wants to conquer the Arctic

Vladimir Putin is desperate to exploit the Arctic to help provide a lifeline to Russia’s flagging economy. It won’t be easy.

  • Matt Oliver
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits, social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord, misinformation and disinformation flourish.

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading

It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.

  • Nick Bonyhady

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