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Xi Jinping won’t allow himself to be pushed around by Trump

China’s ‘Mr Big’ is playing a dangerous game with Trump

Dealing with an unpredictable, domineering Trump is not for everyone. Is Xi Jinping up for the fight?

  • Shuli Ren

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Donald Trump, during his first presidency, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in 2019.

‘Very volatile’: Beijing retaliates with tariffs on US imports, Google probe

Within minutes of the new Trump-imposed tariffs hitting Chinese imports, Beijing fired back with a suite of tariffs and a probe into Google.

  • Lisa Visentin
Year of the Snake - sculpture pic by Sanghee Liu, art by Marija Ercecgovac 

For Xi Jinping, Year of the Snake is destined to be turbulent

Those born in 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 and 2025 are said to be wise and charming, but also mysterious and cunning.

  • Lisa Visentin
A photo released by Ukrainian officials purporting to show a North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine.

North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia earn millions for the Kim regime

Captured soldiers have lifted the curtain ever so slightly on the secretive Kim regime’s decision to join Russia’s war against Ukraine.

  • Lisa Visentin
US President Donald Trump h

Trump’s happy to play the ‘madman’ to restore global order. But will it work?

Trump has repeatedly and explicitly said he wants to use the perception he is unpredictable, and even unhinged, to boost American power.

  • Matthew Knott
Every weekend, parents of unmarried adults come to the marriage market in Shanghai in hope of finding a good match for their children.

Inside Shanghai’s marriage market - where parents seek a match for their unwed child

Marriage rates are declining across China. But at a pop-up market in Shanghai, parents sit for hours every weekend, advertising their single children’s key attributes.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Elon Musk has put himself in Donald Trump’s inner circle.

The MAGA movement is out to get Elon Musk – and so is China

The world’s richest man is flying too close to the sun.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun was handed a suspended death sentence last year.

Australian forced to choose between food and clothes in Beijing jail

In a freezing winter, Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun told Australian officials he could not afford a jumper and had to beg other prisoners for soup.

  • Matthew Knott
Donald Trump is planning on giving TikTok a temporary reprieve.

The dark truth about Trump’s bid to save TikTok

In his first day in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order that defies a US law and encourages others to breach it.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Chinese President Xi Jinping, front, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin and Xi pick up the phone to talk close ties after Trump’s return

In the 1.5-hour video call, the leaders discussed the need to “cope with the uncertainty of the external environment”.

  • Vladimir Isachenkov

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