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New bridge-making barges are believed to give China an advantage if it were to invade Taiwan.

China is said to be a step closer to being able to invade Taiwan

China has been practising unusual manoeuvres off its southern coast involving three special barges. Experts say it changes the equation on Beijing’s war readiness.

  • Chris Buckley, Christoph Koettl and Agnes Chang

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Trading in lunacy. How Trump’s tariffs will ‘save’ masculinity

Tariffs will bring “manly” jobs back to the US, according to Trump supporters. Economists aren’t so sure.

  • Jacqueline Maley

Trump’s made nationalism great again, just not in America

Rather than jingoistic chest-thumping, Trumpism has stirred a stoical civic pride in the things that differentiate individual countries from the US.

  • Nick Bryant
Donald Trump is staring across the table at the “inscrutable” President Xi Jinping, writes Tom Dolan.

Xi holds more cards than Trump in trade showdown

With the two leaders standing eyeball to eyeball as global markets whipsaw around them, who will blink?

  • Lisa Visentin
Min Aung Hlaing

Thailand just gave Myanmar what it craved, and it wasn’t humanitarian aid

The junta was so happy with the news that it dominated the first five pages of the Myanmar newspaper, even as thousands lay dead or dying in rubble.

  • Zach Hope
President Yoon Suk Yeol at a hearing in February.

Dramatic fall for former star lawyer who went from political novice to president in just a year

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s political rise was fast. But his downfall was even faster.

  • Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung
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Trump’s tariffs have delivered a massive political advantage to China, Peter Hartcher says.

Trump delivers ‘huge advantage’ to China with self-destructive tariffs

China may be facing a 34 per cent economic penalty on exports, but Peter Hartcher says the US president has handed Xi Jinping a big favour on a silver platter.

  • Peter Hartcher
Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

‘No trace’: Dissident artist told his work has been removed from Hong Kong billboard

Australia-based artist Badiucao said his four-second video work was designed to test “the freedom-of-speech situation in Hong Kong”.

  • Elizabeth Flux
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This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years

A photo taken on the weekend shows just how much the world is uniting to fight back against Donald Trump’s damaging trade war.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Badiucao’s Here and Now work in Hong Kong.

Artist tests freedom of speech in Hong Kong with daring billboard work

A video of the Australia-based Chinese dissident Badiucao silently saying “you must take part in revolution” has been playing since March 28.

  • Elizabeth Flux

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