Xi Jinping
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- Trade wars
China fires back at Trump with 34 per cent tariffs on American goods
Beijing’s most comprehensive response to date in the ratcheting tariff exchange signals it has no intention of surrendering to the US president’s punitive trade measures.
- Lisa Visentin
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- Analysis
- Trade wars
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
Beijing denounces spy vessel claims as smear campaign
Beijing has rebuffed suggestions that it is seeking to influence the federal election after one of its research vessels travelled past Australia’s southern coast.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Australia votes
Australians are clear on our biggest threats. But our leaders don’t want to discuss it
Voters want to know what the contenders for the prime ministership will do to protect the national interest. Neither Albanese nor Dutton so far have any answers for them.
- Peter Hartcher
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
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.
- Opinion
- Inside China
The Trump turmoil has handed China a golden opportunity
Xi Jinping has raced to take advantage of the increased uncertainty sparked by Donald Trump.
- Chris Price
- Opinion
- Trump's America
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
- Opinion
- Putin's Russia
Ice king: Why Vladimir Putin wants to conquer the Arctic
Vladimir Putin is desperate to exploit the Arctic to help provide a lifeline to Russia’s flagging economy. It won’t be easy.
- Matt Oliver
The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading
It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.
- Nick Bonyhady
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