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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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US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. Donald Trump urged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to work

Time running out on nukes: US

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have affirmed their ‘firm commitment’ to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

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US President Donald Trump and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walk before their working lunch at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on November 6, 2017. Trump lashed out at the US trade relationship with Japan, saying it was

US risks more than trade

Donald Trump’s hard line on trade with China, Japan and South Korea could weaken support for his North Korea policy.

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The World

U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. first lady Melania visit the Forbidden City with ChinaÕs President Xi Jinping and ChinaÕs First Lady Peng Liyuan in Beijing, China, November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC18BB182490

Dinner with Xi follows roasting

Donald Trump was greeted with ‘state visit-plus’ pomp in China last night.

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The World

U.S. first lady Melania Trump poses for a photo with South Korean and U.S. children at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Xi ‘very helpful’ on NK: Trump

The US and its allies are ‘making a lot of progress’ in dealing with nuclear-armed North Korea, Donald Trump says.

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Higher Education

Group of Eight chief executive Vicki Thomson

Unis face ‘tide of hostility’

“The more available university education in Australia has become, the less the community has trusted us”.

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The World

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, talks with Japan's Emperor Akihito, left, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)

Abe backs Trump on Kim

Japan has backed Donald Trump’s policy to consider all options to rein in the regime of Kim Jong-un.

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The World

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and US President Donald Trump (L) meet for a dinner at a restaurant in Tokyo on November 5, 2017. Trump touched down in Japan on November 5, kicking off the first leg of a high-stakes Asia tour set to be dominated by soaring tensions with nuclear-armed North Korea. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / KIM KYUNG-HOON

Beacon for kidnapped Japanese

Donald and Melania Trump now know why Shinzo Abe wears a blue ribbon on his lapel.

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Markets

TOPSHOT - A man looks at his phone near a giant image of the Chinese national flag on the side of a building in Beijing, during the ongoing 19th Communist Party Congress on October 23, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER

China banker’s debt crunch warning

China’s central bank chief, Zhou Xiaochuan, has issued stern warnings about the country’s rising debt levels.

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The World

Pedestrians, one wearing a mask, walk by a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a street in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. China's ruling Communist Party has praised President Xi as a Marxist thinker, adding to intense propaganda promoting Xi's personal image as he begins a second five-year term as leader. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Xi adds top cop to his roles

The People’s Armed Police force is the latest link in the chain of key organisations to fall under Xi Jinping’s control.

Rowan Callick and Zhang Yufei

The World

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech for the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. President Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. The trip will take him to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and Philippines for summits of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Trump launches broadside at Kim

Donald Trump launches an Asia tour to be dominated by North Korea warning no dictator should underestimate the US.

Rowan Callick

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