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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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Kim commits to shedding nukes

Kim Jong-un is “committed to the denuclearisation” of the Korean peninsula, China declared yesterday.

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Great mall of China’s trade lesson

Donald Trump may not be the greatest expert on trade in goods, but he is an accomplished trader in insults.

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Kim’s not-so-secret assignation

Kim Jong-un has met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, the first time he has risked leaving North Korea in over six years.

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BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 01: The honor guards attend the flag-raising ceremony at the Tiananmen Square on January 1, 2017 in Beijing, China. About 26,000 people come to watch the flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square on the first Day of 2017 in Beijing. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Tightening reveals China debt fear

China is still trying to digest implications of the country shifting towards personal rule by Xi Jinping, which may be for life.

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The World

In this Tuesday, March 20, 2018 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to elected deputies after the closing session of the annual National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party's move to exert direct control over state broadcasters and regulators of everything from movies and TV to books and radio programs shows the party's drive to use the media for ideological efforts at home and to improve its image overseas, analysts say. The move is part of a push by Xi to tighten party supervision over much of Chinese public life as he renews his uncontested rule free of constitutional limits on his terms in office. (Lan Hongguang/Xinhua via AP)

UN backs China on human rights

China has convinced the UN Human Rights Council to support President Xi Jinping’s core rights concept.

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Media

China’s ‘bloody battle’ in the past

A historic speech by President Xi Jinping last week appeared to become not so much lost as tangled in translation.

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The World

A shopper wearing a mask against pollution walks past a U.S, apparel store in Beijing Friday, March 23, 2018. China announced on Friday a $3 billion list of U.S. goods including pork, apples and steel pipe on Friday it said may be hit with higher tariffs in a spiraling trade dispute with President Donald Trump that companies and investors worry could depress global commerce. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China ready to retaliate on trade

Beijing foreshadows a wave of new tariffs on American imports, in response to Donald Trump’s 25 per cent levy.

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CommentWorld Commentary

Much to lose in trade war

There is no good time for a trade war, but Donald Trump’s launch of one now is especially troubling.

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(FILES) This file picture taken on March 20, 2018 shows Chinese President Xi Jinping applauding during the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. As Xi Jinping embarks on a potential lifelong presidency, activists fear that the Chinese leader's promise of a

Xi’s broom sweeps through Beijing

The massive reshaping of China’s power structure is gathering pace.

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What’s changing in China?

All indications are our economic ties remain robust, but it helps to understand the policy shifts happening under Xi Jinping.

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