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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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FILE - In this March 13, 2017, file photo, the then-party secretary of Chongqing, Sun Zhengcai, attends a plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Sun, a Fformer rising Chinese political star Sun Zhengcai has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and dismissed from public office amid a corruption investigation. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Expulsion draws a gathering crowd

The biggest crowd at an exhibition lauding China under Xi Jinping was gathered around photos of disgraced leaders.

Rowan Callick

Inquirer

This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 12, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) attending a photo session with teachers who volunteered to work at branch schools on islands and schools in forefront line and mountainous areas, in Pyongyang. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Powered by the cult of the Kims

Visitors to North Korea begin to understand why its citizens accept their dark fate.

Rowan Callick

The World

People walk by on Tiananmen square in Beijing on September 28, 2017. China will convene its 19th Party Congress on October 18, state media said, a key meeting held every five years where President Xi Jinping is expected to receive a second term as the ruling Communist Party’s top leader. / AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI

700 million Chinese on the move

China is on the move this weekend — about 700 million people will be travelling for holdays.

Rowan Callick

The World

TOPSHOT - Chinese soldiers applaud during a military parade at the Zhurihe training base in China's northern Inner Mongolia region on July 30, 2017. China held a parade of its armed forces on July 30 to mark the 90th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in a display of military might. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT

PLA purged in party roll call

Sweeping change is under way at the top of China’s People’s Liberation Army.

Rowan Callick

Sturt Krygsman Business Cartoon for 28-09-2017. Version: (Original)COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications.Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.

China wields trade might

The Korean crisis is already shutting down shops and jobs.

Rowan Callick

Markets

Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Steven Ciobo in his Office at Parliament House in Canberra.Picture Kym Smith

China law to clarify trade zone

China is to introduce next year, earlier than anticipated, a long-promised ‘negative list’ of areas of activity.

Rowan Callick

UPDATEDNational Affairs

AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin addressing the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

AFP, Chinese police sign deal

The deal governs how Chinese police can pursue its nationals accused of crimes who are living in Australia.

Rowan Callick and PRIMROSE RIORDAN

ANALYSISThe World

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a statement in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said his country may conduct a

Asian dismay over ‘hot heads’

Asians, unused to such levels of open acrimony, are shocked by the insults flowing between the US and North Korea.

Rowan Callick

The World

North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD

NKorea assails ‘deranged’ Trump

‘Rockets visit’ to the entire US mainland inevitable, North Korea tells ‘deranged Trump’.

Rowan Callick

Economics

Buildings are seen in Beijing on September 14, 2017. China's economy revealed fresh signs of headwinds in August as data showed on September 14 that industrial output and retail sales unexpectedly slowed for a second consecutive month. / AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER

China fires back over downgrade

China’s Finance Ministry has said S&P’s downgrade of its credit rating is a result of “cliched” thinking.

Rowan Callick

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