World
Asia
I attended the largest-ever gathering of humans. The logistics are mind-boggling
In just three months, a functioning city that can cater for 10 million pilgrims a day springs up and then disappears a few weeks later.
- by Chris Johnson
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What a $5000 Chanel handbag tells you about China’s economy
In Beijing, the squeezing of the upper middle class shows just how far into Chinese society the economic slowdown is reaching.
- by Lisa Visentin
‘Those with bigger fists should not be allowed to call the shots’: China takes aim at Trump
As the US president upends decades of foreign policy, China stepped forward on Friday to sell its own alternative to the US-led global world order.
- by Lisa Visentin
Olarenshaw’s wife found guilty of allowing ‘pornography services’
In a bad day for purveyors and partakers in Bali’s raunchy massage scene, two other Australians were also found guilty on the charges in separate cases.
- by Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
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Inside China
‘Changes unseen in a century’: China braces for shifting global order
As a trade war with the United States begins, China wants to fire up its economy and plans to increase defence spending.
- by Lisa Visentin
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China relations
China says it ‘will not flinch’ as it meets Trump’s new tariffs with its own
It took only minutes for Beijing to respond to the latest salvo in the US president’s global trade war.
- by Lisa Visentin
Bali bombing patients caught up in Indonesia’s DOGE-style budget cuts
Tumini still remembers the explosions and screams, and stumbling into that smoky night from Paddy’s bar, where she had been mixing cocktails.
- by Zach Hope, Amilia Rosa and Karuni Rompies
Opinion
Thailand
The White Lotus effect has landed in Thailand, with a plague of lotus-eaters
I travelled 7250 kilometres for enlightenment but found it closer to home.
- by Sarah Macdonald
No need for red paint: Taiwan finds a fix to historical statue problem
What should be done with the tributes to historically significant but flawed figures? The answer may lie in a nondescript park near Taipei.
- by Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
Opinion
China relations
Australia wedged by Chinese aggression and Trump’s degression
Exposed to a hostile China on trade and a buccaneering US on security, our complacency has left us near-naked.
- by Peter Hartcher
Trump’s antics leave Taiwan wondering if US is still in its corner
The US President was once seen as a strong supporter of Taiwan. Now he is accusing it of stealing from the US.
- by Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
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