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Rowan Callick is a double Walkley Award winner and a Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year. He has worked and lived in Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Beijing.

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Hong KongInquirer

TOPSHOT - Protesters are enveloped by tear gas let off by police during a demonstration against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong on July 28, 2019. - Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters defied authorities to hold an unsanctioned march through Hong Kong, a day after riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse another illegal gathering, plunging the financial hub deeper into crisis. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

Hong Kong tests Xi’s red line

China’s strongman president Xi Jinping is reluctant to risk a bloody showdown in Hong Kong. But no one doubts there are limits to his patience.

Rowan Callick

North KoreaInquirer

Australian student Alek Sigley with is wife Yuka - Alek has been arrested at a university in North Korea. Facebook posted 10 November 2017

Why visit this pitiless country?

Alek Sigley should buy a lottery ticket; he was at grave risk. Remember Otto Warmbier.

Rowan Callick

Nation

Nick Jose at the Tiananmen square memorial in Adelaide. He was the cultural attache in the Australian embassy in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989.

Writer haunted by horror of 1989

This Wednesday, novelist Nicholas Jose, now an English professor, will pause to recall the most dramatic day in his life.

Rowan Callick

the china illusionInquirer

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese people gather around a 10m replica of the Statue of Liberty (c), called the Goddess of Democracy, in Tiananmen Square demanding democracy despite martial law in Beijing 02 Jun 1989. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of protesters were killed by China's military on 03 and 04 Jun 1989, as communist leaders ordered an end to six weeks of unprecedented democracy protests in the heart of the Chinese capital. Dissidents and human rights advocates around the world will mark 04 Jun 2009 the twentieth anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy protests. (AFP PHOTO/FILES/CATHERINE HENRIETTE)

Ghost of Tiananmen still haunts

However big China’s economy grows, its blemished Communist past still hangs around its neck.

Rowan Callick

Business

China play a risky business

Voters tend to presume that Australia’s 27 years of uninterrupted economic growth will continue almost independent of government policy

Rowan Callick

Business

Federal Minister for Trade, Tourism & Investment Simon Birmingham on day two of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, officially opening the Australian Pavilion.Photo credit: DFAT/Chris Crerar

Bridging the China divide

The new Festival of Australia will help to repair the relationship with Beijing.

Rowan Callick

EXCLUSIVEBusiness

Ollie Wines of Port Adelaide Power (right) and Seb Ross of Saint Kilda Saints pose for a photo in Little China Town in in Melbourne, Tuesday, October 25, 2018. The AFL today announced Port Adelaide and St.Kilda will play a home and away game in China for the three years from 2019. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Australia ‘festival’ to focus on Chinese cities

Trade Minister Simon Birmingham is set to announce today a “Festival of Australia” in 10 of China’s biggest cities

Rowan Callick

TOPSHOT - This photo taken and handout on March 23, 2019 by Italy's Quirinale Presidential Press Office shows Italy's President Sergio Mattarella (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping reviewing troops upon Xi Jinping's arrival for their meeting at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome on March 23, 2019 as part of Xi Jinping's two-day visit to Italy. (Photo by Handout / Quirinale Press Office / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / QUIRINALE PRESS OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ---

Xi gets down to business

Beijing must allow more input to ease concerns over its Belt and Road initiative.

Rowan Callick

Media

Covering China a unique dilemma

A new report by public policy organisation China Matters rejects claims Australia’s media are ‘anti-China’.

Rowan Callick

Corporate chiefs blind to riches in our region

Corporate Australia and our financial analysts are smart all right, but are they smart enough?

Rowan Callick

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