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Chinese President Xi Jinping adjusts his jacket during the closing session of the National People’s Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.

Xi extinguishes separation of powers, fuses the party with the state

President Xi Jinping has spent the past decade building the Chinese state around him and this week formally removed his final obstacle: the power of the State Council.

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong, here boarding a plane to meet her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, says Labor has stabilised relations with the Asian superpower.

Will Penny Wong revive China relations or be ‘played like a trout’?

When Whitlam visited in 1971, four years before I became China correspondent, MacMahon sneered that he’d been taken for a ride. I’m sure Wong’s visit will be different.

  • Yvonne Preston
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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
Peng Shuai and Zhang Gaoli

The ‘dead boring cadre’ and the ‘Golden Flower’: China’s reckoning with power and sex erupts

On a 42-degree day at Melbourne Park, and in front of the world’s most powerful political organisation, Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai showed breathtaking courage.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Tensions have been steadily building between Beijing and Ottawa since Canadian police, acting on a US request, detained  Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport.

China's new wolf warrior diplomacy is a Maoist resurrection

Australia must be prepared to bear short-term pain for the long-term benefit of defending core national interests against China.

  • Anne-Marie Brady
Illustration by Tara Axford

Power and Paranoia: Why the Chinese government aggressively pushes beyond its borders

The Chinese government’s covert operations in Australia are considerable. Can Australia push back without economic consequences?

  • Peter Hartcher
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A 1960s poster of Mao Zedong.

The People's Republic of China is 70. How did it get here?

It is party time in Beijing as the People's Republic of China turns 70. What is it? Who are its heroes? And how did it get to where it is today?

  • Felicity Lewis

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