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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 KONG, HONG KONG - June 30: Members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) attend a flag raising ceremony at the Shek Kong Barracks on June 30, 2018 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Hong Kong will mark 21 years since its return to Chinese sovereignty from British rule on Sunday as thousands of people are expected to turn up for an annual rally to demand full democracy and vent their frustration over the soaring accommodation costs in the world's most expensive city for expatriates. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Don’t blame us, it’s Beijing forcing a new world order

What’s happening with China goes way beyond loose lips or protocol. It’s not an ‘Australian issue’. It’s affecting the whole world.

Rowan Callick

Books

19/04/2001. Peter Ryan worked behind Japanese lines in Papua New Guinea during World War Two, and has written a book of his memoirs titled 'Fear drive my feet'.

Disciplined battler with a spark of mischief

John Tidey brings us into the company of an extraordinary Australian in Ryan’s Luck: A Life of Peter Ryan MM.

Rowan Callick

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22/09/2020: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

BRI termination is just the icing on Xi’s cake

The now-nullified Belt and Road Initiative deal achieved its core goal merely by being signed by Dan Andrews in 2018.

Rowan Callick

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Undated. Flags of the Commonwealth - Papua New Guinea. flag PNG

They deserve all our help in their hour of need

COVID-19 is savagely testing PNG. They are our closest neighbours. And they are largely defenceless in the face of this virus.

Rowan Callick

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PNG Prime Minister-designate Michael Somare (L) and Australian PM Gough Whitlam get together during the flag-raising ceremony at Independence Hall in Port Moresby, 15/09/1975 as Papua New Guinea obtained indpendence from Australia. Pic Willmott.

Drums fall silent as nation loses chief

Michael Somare became the face of PNG to the world from the time the first daring troublemakers began to dream of independence in the 1960s.

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27/05/2010 WIRE: (FILES) In a file picture taken on May 27, 2010 New Guinean Prime Minister Michael Somare addresses the Climate and Forest Conference in Oslo. Veteran Papua New Guinea leader Sir Michael Somare declared September 1, 2011 he is still the Pacific nation's prime minister despite his family announcing his retirement while he was ill. AFP PHOTO / FILES / Hakon Mosvold Larsen

Wounded giant made time for chat

Michael Somare was one of those people who naturally capture the attention of everyone in a room.

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TV anchor a pawn in Beijing’s cruel game

Of the thousands of Australians stuck overseas, Cheng Lei should be top of the list to be brought home.

Rowan Callick

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No going back now: farewell to China’s most sparkling gem

Cosmopolitan, colourful, dynamic Hong Kong is being strangled and swallowed by Xi Jinping ’s bleak dystopia. Where are the noisy elites now?

Rowan Callick

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28/06/2019 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison meets with President Xi Jinping during the G20 in Osaka, Japan on June 28, 2019. Picture: Adam Taylor Adam Taylor/PMO

Xi Jinping’s hidden messages reveal all

‘Let Huawei run your 5G platforms’. ‘Don’t talk about Hong Kong or Taiwan’. Xi Jinping didn’t say it outright, but the Chinese president’s message was clear.

Rowan Callick

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TOPSHOT - People are detained as pro-democracy protesters gather in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on June 12, 2020. - Thousands of Hong Kongers sang a protest anthem and chanted slogans across the city on June 12 as they marked the one-year anniversary of major clashes between police and pro-democracy demonstrators. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

Why Xi won’t back down

Beijing — which has brought Tibet, Xinjiang and now Hong Kong to heel — needs to ensure that Australia defers to it appropriately. We are now a thorn in Xi Jinping’s side, not mere gum on his shoe.

Rowan Callick

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