China at two speeds: Flying cars, moon trips and millions struggling to survive
Beneath the country’s rising tide of prosperity and modernisation are 300 million workers on whose poor backs the country is being transformed.
- by Lisa Visentin
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‘Not unusual’ for a treasurer to model negative gearing, says Chalmers
The treasurer has defended the use of federal officials to explore changes to negative gearing after days of dispute over the housing crisis.
- by David Crowe, James Massola and Lisa Visentin
Chalmers likes China’s economic stimulus plans but lobster still not on the menu
Speaking in the Chinese capital on Friday after meetings with local officials, the treasurer said Australia had “a lot at stake” when it came to China’s economic slowdown.
- by Lisa Visentin
China vows to fix housing market as Chalmers arrives to learn Australian fallout
Chalmers’s arrival in Beijing on Thursday for two days of meetings, the first visit by an Australian treasurer in seven years, coincided with a flurry of economic activity in China.
- by Lisa Visentin
Australia monitors US ban on Chinese car software over security fears
The US is set to ban Chinese-made connected-car technology amid concerns that Beijing could access Americans’ data and even remotely disable cars on US roads.
- by Lisa Visentin
‘Seditious T-shirt’ enough to send Chu to jail for up to 10 years
In Hong Kong, where almost 300 people including Australian Gordon Ng have been arrested on national security grounds since the introduction of draconian security laws in 2020, wearing the wrong T-shirt can land you in jail.
- by Lisa Visentin
Missing for months, China’s axed top diplomat has turned up. Or has he?
A veil of murkiness continues to hang over the fate of China’s ex-foreign minister Qin Gang, who has not been seen in public since June 2023, even amid fresh reports this week that he had been demoted to a low-level publishing job.
- by Lisa Visentin
China’s population keeps falling. This is why
The generation of women born in the era of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy are having few, if any, children.
- by Lisa Visentin
‘Two bowls of poison’: Why China dreads both Trump and Harris
The future of the US relationship with Beijing has been a backseat issue in the presidential campaign, but neither result bodes well for Xi Jinping.
- by Lisa Visentin
‘Gotta be fun, gotta be cool, gotta be sexy’: The candidates vying to be Japan’s PM
Up to 11 candidates could contest the election to become head of Japan’s ruling party and the country’s prime minister. Among them is the son a former PM and two women vying to become the country’s first female leader.
- by Lisa Visentin
Chinese spy plane breaches Japan’s airspace
Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government, summoning the Charge d’Affaires of the Chinese embassy in Tokyo.
- by Lisa Visentin
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