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US Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday.

Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

  • Benedict Smith

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Fast food workers at Chinese burger chain Tastien prepare orders at a store in Beijing.

Made in China burger and fries has a side of nationalism

I went to a Tastien fast food outlet to try the burger that’s designed to knock McDonald’s and KFC off their Beijing perch. Some come here just for the buns.

  • Lisa Visentin
America, led by Donald Trump (pictured here with Xi Jinping in 2019), is becoming more like China at a rapid rate.

Peter Hartcher on how Trump is remaking America in China’s image

A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.

Crowds at a section of the Great Wall of China during Golden Week.

Ten things travellers will never understand about China

Everyone holidays at the same time, there’s an obsession with giant, bizarre buildings, and it’s very different to how it’s portrayed in the Western media.

  • Brian Johnston
Ted Hui, a former Hong Kong pro- democracy legislator, is now in exile in Australia.

‘Gangster regime’: Hong Kong dissident targeted by threatening letter

An exiled Hong Kong activist has insisted he will not be silenced after his Australian law firm received a threatening letter offering a reward for his arrest.

  • Matthew Knott
Nishan Velupillay.

World Cup qualifiers 2025 as it happened: Socceroos cruise to vital 2-0 win over China

Australia’s direct qualification hopes for next year’s World Cup will now come down to June’s clashes with Japan and Saudi Arabia after an important victory in Hangzhou on Tuesday night.

  • Vince Rugari
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Day by day, Trump’s America becomes more like Xi’s China

The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing’s repressive controls.

  • Peter Hartcher
China’s dominance of global shipbuilding is comprehensive.

The new Trump threat to Australia-US trade – and it’s not tariffs

Australia’s shipping industry says a US proposal to impose “extreme” fees on China-linked ships that visit its ports will hurt trade and could lead to business failures and job losses.

  • Michael Koziol
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
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

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