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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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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

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

HOLD FOR COURIER MAIL - Mackay, 18 Aug 2018. Coal ships queued up at Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay Coal loading facilities.Coal ships moored offshore.Photo : Daryl Wright

Don’t put all our eggs in China’s mysterious basket

Australia’s core relationship with China has entered a strange no man’s land, where everyone seems to be jumping at shadows.

Rowan Callick

Higher Education

20.8.18- Port Adelaide Football Club's China manager Andrew Hunter and player Ollie Wines with giant panda Fu Ni, at Adelaide Zoo. Port Adelaide has won Federal funding to take its Power Footy program to more Chinese schools (Sichuan this time). Picture: Bianca De Marchi

AFL opening doors for international ‘buddies’

Port Adelaide AFL club will next week launch an international student program.

Rowan Callick

Visual Arts

Qing dynasty 1644–1911 'Meat-shaped stone' jasper 6.6 x 7.9 x 6.6 cm National Palace Museum, Taipei Photo: © National Palace Museum, Taipei ***This image may only be used in conjunction with editorial coverage of the ‘Heaven and earth in Chinese art: treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei’ exhibition on display 2 February – 5 May 2019, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This image may not be cropped or overwritten. Prior approval in writing required for use as a cover. Caption details must accompany reproduction of the image. Media contact: Hannah.McKissock-Davis@ag.nsw.gov.au *** Local Caption *** ***This image may only be used in conjunction with editorial coverage of the ‘Heaven and earth in Chinese art: treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei’ exhibition on display 2 February – 5 May 2019, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This image may not be cropped or overwritten. Prior approval in writing required for use as a cover. Caption details must accompany reproduction of the image. Media contact: Hannah.McKissock-Davis@ag.nsw.gov.au

Middle Kingdom masterworks

Artworks fit for an emperor come to Sydney as part of the Heaven and earth in Chinese art exhibition.

Rowan Callick

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