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Anthony Albanese and Li Qiang inspect troops in Beijing on Tuesday 15 July 2025 ahead of a formal meeting.

Chinese premier rebukes Australia over investment

Chinese state media reported Anthony Albanese had told President Xi Jinping that he does not support Taiwanese independence, but the prime minister put it differently.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Qantas says the hack occurred just days after it had tightened security following a warning from the FBI.

Flea in the ointment as Qantas passenger alleges flight bites, airline offers points

The Flying Kangaroo stands accused of being a flea circus.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Albanese, Xi declare trade will go on despite global chaos of Trump’s tariffs

Australia will keep its vital trading relationship with China separate from its ties to the US, Anthony Albanese has declared, after he held a private meeting with President Xi Jinping on Tuesday.

  • Paul Sakkal
Anthony Albanese meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday.

China and Xi give Albanese a warm welcome, but another side is never far away

The meeting between the two leaders was jovial as both smiled for the cameras. But several photographers were kept away, and other journalists had had a security incident earlier in the day.

  • Paul Sakkal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks in Shanghai.

‘Patient, deliberate, calibrated’: Albanese walks trade-security tightrope in China

The PM will use a meeting with China’s Premier Li Qiang to spruik the benefits of Australia’s stabilised relationship after vowing not to back down on security issues.

  • Paul Sakkal
Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Why Twiggy’s happy to cut the oranges for Team Australia

Andrew Forrest, the mining tycoon turned climate saviour, was in trademark form as he – wearing a Ukraine flag pin on his jacket – praised the PM, issued AI warnings and trumpeted green steel.

  • Paul Sakkal
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Finland’s Preisdent Alexander Stubb has some advice about living next to Russia.

Landmines, fences and plenty of ‘sisu’: Life living next door to Vladimir Putin

From the Finnish president’s lakeside summer residence, Alexander Stubb tells Peter Hartcher what Australia can learn from Finland’s experience.

  • Peter Hartcher
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese taking questions on Friday.

Trade, pandas … and soccer: Albanese walks diplomatic tightrope with Xi and Trump

As Anthony Albanese travels to China, the delegation will engage in panda diplomacy, but the trip is far more focused on tourism and trade.

  • Paul Sakkal
Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump.

Albanese on US alliance: ‘We aren’t subservient’

Listen to the prime minister’s closed-door remarks on the US alliance, made days before this masthead revealed how the Trump administration could reshape AUKUS.

  • Paul Sakkal
US President Donald Trump during a ceremony for the signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4.

America has waved a white flag on 21st-century technology supremacy

The combination of Donald Trump’s gutting of Joe Biden’s subsidies for green technologies and his tariffs are gifting China victory in a race it already leads.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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