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The Hong Kong government has a $200,000 bounty on the head of Australian pro-democracy activist Kevin Yam.

I have a price on my head. I hope my neighbours won’t try to cash in

This week, letters arrived at homes in Melbourne offering a $200,000 bounty on my head. It would be claimable if I was taken to Hong Kong. In short, the letters call for me to be kidnapped.

  • Kevin Yam

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Exiled Hong Kong lawyer Kevin Yam.

$200k to betray a neighbour: The Hong Kong letters pursuing dissidents in Australia

The office of Foreign Minister Penny Wong has raised concerns with Chinese authorities after letters appeared on Australian doorsteps offering large sums of money for information about dissidents.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Eryk Bagshaw
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
Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa, in Itoman, Okinawa archipelago, southern Japan.

Old bones on jungle island sound warning to those living here today

Takamatsu runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge - parts of the skulls, he says, of an infant and possibly an adult.

  • Ayaka McGill, Hiro Komae and Mari Yamaguchi
Xi Jinping (right) shaking hands with once-sidelined entrepreneur Jack Ma in Beijing ahead of a business summit last month chaired by the Chinese president.

Xi brought Ma in from the cold. AI investors took notice

He was one of China’s most well-known faces before disappearing from public view. Now Jack Ma is back.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Playing tough on tariffs will only aggravate a bad situation

Quiet diplomacy is a better course of action than retaliatory measures for the sake of votes, writes John MacKay.

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French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with US President-elect Donald Trump at the Elysee Palace on Saturday.

Trump is changing the narratives on both sides of the Atlantic

The president’s policies and his decision to force Ukraine into a peace deal with Russia have prompted Europe to take steps that were unimaginable before he regained the White House.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Shoppers walk pass the World of Ralph Lauren in Taiku Li Sanlitun, a popular shopping and dining area in Beijing.

What a $5000 Chanel handbag tells you about China’s economy

In Beijing, the squeezing of the upper middle class shows just how far into Chinese society the economic slowdown is reaching.

  • Lisa Visentin
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi addresses the media on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress in Beijing.

‘Those with bigger fists should not be allowed to call the shots’: China takes aim at Trump

As the US president upends decades of foreign policy, China stepped forward on Friday to sell its own alternative to the US-led global world order.

  • Lisa Visentin
Drill, baby, drill: US President Donald Trump’s policies are weighing on the oil price.

More than ‘a little disturbance’: Trump and OPEC are sinking the oil price

This week, OPEC+ did what Donald Trump has demanded and announced it would start increasing production, pushing oil prices down to three-year lows. Trump may get more than he bargained for.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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