Will Glasgow

Will GlasgowNorth Asia Correspondent

Will Glasgow is The Australian’s North Asia Correspondent. In 2018 he won the Keith McDonald Award for Business Journalist of the Year. He previously worked at The Australian Financial Review.

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PLA encounterNation

Tension between Beijing and Canberra has hit new heights following two Chinese aircrafts launching flares near a RAAF surveillance plane.

China accuses Australia of being a ‘thug’ in the South China Sea

Beijing’s extraordinary outburst comes after Defence Minister Richard Marles said China’s persistent and dangerous military behaviour could end in fatalities.

Will Glasgow

Tensions riseDefence

The Chinese Military Jet J-16 . Pictures - Supplied

China blames Australia for fighter jet’s flare drop

China accused the RAAF P-8A Poseidon of ‘deliberately intruding into China’s airspace’ while Australia lodged an official protest over the incident that risked the lives of up to a dozen Australians.

Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVENation

Wine_of_Chile_..._A_box_of_Yellow_Tail_being_delivered_to_a_supermarket_in_Beijing . Picture Will Glasgow/The Australian

Australia reclaims China wine crown

The surge of Australian wine back to China is welcome trade news for Canberra. But all is not right in the Australian industry’s biggest overseas market.

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death sentenceWorld

--FILE--Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun attends a lecture at Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China, 18 November 2010. China has detained a Chinese-Australian writer who had flown in from New York last week, the Australian government said, adding it was trying to find out why he was being held. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Chinese authorities on Wednesday had informed the Australian embassy in Beijing that they had detained Yang Hengjun. "The department is seeking to clarify the nature of this detention and to obtain consular access to him ... as a matter of priority," the department said in a statement issued late on Wednesday. (Imaginechina via AP Images)

China’s Yang jailing is appalling: Wong

Penny Wong said the government was ‘appalled’ by the suspended death sentence given to Yang Hengjun, but his supporters worry that Canberra’s approach is ‘too soft’.

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Trade War 2025World

(FILES) This file combination of pictures created on May 14, 2020 shows recent portraits of China's President Xi Jinping (L) and US President Donald Trump. - Donald Trump pleaded with China's leader Xi Jinping for help to win re-election in 2020, the US president's former aide John Bolton writes in an explosive new book, according to excerpts published June 17. (Photos by Dan Kitwood and Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Beijing bites back with big tariff hit on US

China slugged the US with 15 per cent tariffs on coal and liquefied natural gas just hours after Canada and Mexico won a 30-day reprieve from Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs.

Joe Kelly and Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVENation

Fan Xubin (C) and friends selecting an Australian lobster for a Chinese New Year lunch in Beijing. Picture: Will Glasgow

Lobster fishers ‘new normal’ in China set to cost $250m a year

China’s most desirable seafood has been hit by an economic trend that could outlive this Year of the Snake: weak consumer confidence in our biggest trading partner. It has ominous implications for Australia’s budget coffers.

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tradePolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - January 26, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian at the 2025 Australian of the Year Awards at the National Arboretum in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Exports to China slumped 9 per cent despite warmer ties

New data shows China and Australia’s trade slumped in 2024, even as Beijing, the Albanese government and Peter Dutton’s opposition talked up the future of the economic relationship.

Will Glasgow

‘ball is in America’s court’World

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 8, 2017 US President Donald Trump (L) and China's President Xi Jinping shakE hands during a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. - US President Donald Trump, who is seeking reelection on November 3, has regularly jolted the world with statements about other leaders that sharply deviate from long-held diplomatic protocol. (Photo by Nicolas ASFOURI / AFP) / TO GO WITH US-vote-diplomacy-trade-China,FOCUS by Patrick Baert

China offers Trump a choice: wine, or a shotgun

Chinese officials offer a pugnacious Communist Party foreign relations formula when asked how they will approach Donald Trump’s second administration.

Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEWorld

Clockwise from top: Solar photovoltaic panels at a wind solar heat storage project in Golmud City; water is released from the Three Gorges Dam; a wind farm in Xinjiang; Shichengzi photovoltaic industrial park in Hami

Solar projects as big as Singapore, 1000 power plants: Xi’s answer on energy

Eleven nuclear power stations signed off in a single meeting, more than 1000 thermal coal-fired power stations. China is taking an everything, everywhere, all at once approach to its electricity mix.

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Call for impeachmentWorld

A National Assembly staff sprays fire extinguishers to block soldiers entering the main hall of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (Jo Da-un/Yonhap via AP)

Yoon’s presidency on borrowed time

Yoon Suk Yeol’s South Korean presidency is in peril after his brazen attempt to break through a domestic political logjam by imposing martial law was followed by a humiliating backflip and rising calls for his impeachment.

Will Glasgow

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