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Will GlasgowNorth Asia Correspondent

Will Glasgow is The Australian’s North Asia Correspondent, now based in Beijing. He has lived and reported from Beijing and Taipei since 2020. He is winner of the Keith McDonald Award for Business Journalist of the Year and previously worked at The Australian Financial Review.

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Fear and elationUS Politics

(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)

China calls for ‘peaceful co-existence’ after Trump win

Beijing is preparing for a tariff assault that businesses say will be terrible for China’s economy, while Donald Trump’s Chinese ‘liberal’ supporters are elated.

Will Glasgow

ExclusiveNation

Chinese Commerce minister gives Farrell ‘personal assurances’ Aussie beef, lobster bans to end

Trade Minister Don Farrell says China’s Commerce Minister has said he will take a ‘personal interest’ in ensuring the removal of Beijing’s remaining bans on Australian trade.

Will Glasgow

WorldWorld

Australia’s Minister for Trade Don Farrell and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits the Australian stalls at China International Import Expo in Shanghai, China, Sunday, November 5, 2023. Anthony Albanese will hold talks in China with President Xi Jinping in the first visit to the Asian nation by a sitting prime minister since 2016. Picture - PMO/X

‘Job not done’: Farrell flies out to seal end of lobster, beef bans

Trade Minister Don Farrell will press his Chinese counterpart to remove the remnants of Beijing’s $20bn trade coercion campaign as China’s state media fulminates over Australia’s ‘increasingly aggressive’ AUKUS posture.

Will Glasgow

US electionUS Politics

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump talks to opera performers at the Forbidden City in Beijing on November 8, 2017. US President Donald Trump toured the Forbidden City with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on November 8 as he began the crucial leg of an Asian tour intended to build a global front against North Korea's nuclear threats. / AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON

Chinese liberals cheer for Trump as communists fret

It has China watchers baffled, even appalled, but a sizeable number in the communist nation’s pro-democracy movement hail US Republican candidate Donald Trump as a vehicle for change.

Will Glasgow

SpaceWorld

A long March-2F carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou-19 spacecraft and crew of three astronauts lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in the Gobi desert, northwest China, on October 30, 2024. The mission of three astronauts to the Tiangong space station will carry out experiments with an eye to the space programme's ambitious goal of placing astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and eventually constructing a lunar base. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP)

China takes great leap in race to build a moon base

The Australian’s North Asia correspondent witnessed China’s space launch on Wednesday, the latest step in Beijing’s moon-base plan which has rattled Washington and its allies.

Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEWorld

Wuhan goes viral again as the ‘robotaxi capital of the world’ | WATCH

The Chinese metropolis is again commanding international attention – this time as the unlikely rival to San Francisco in the race to roll out self-driving cars. The Australian takes a ride in one to see what all the fuss is about.

Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEWorld

Five years after the pandemic began, we return to Wuhan.

Almost five years after the pandemic began, we return to Covid ground zero

In the first trip by Australian media since January 2020, The Weekend Australian asks locals: What really happened in Wuhan?

Will Glasgow

Diplomatic tusslePolitics

Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 22, 2024. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko / POOL / AFP)

China accuses Australia of ‘systemic racism, hate crimes’

Beijing has launched a tirade against Canberra after an Australian diplomat raised concerns about human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet as President Xi meets Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEDefence

(241014) -- BEIJING, Oct. 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, holds talks with President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 14, 2024. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) (Photo by YAO DAWEI / XINHUA / Xinhua via AFP)

Insider’s view of how AUKUS looks from China

Canberra is an increasing concern for military planners in Beijing who warn, ‘now we can easily reach Australia’.

Will Glasgow

ASEAN MEETINGPolitics

10-10-2024 - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese Premier Li Qiang hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the the 27th ASEAN-Japan Summit, at the National Convention Centre, in Vientiane, Laos. Picture: PMO

Aussie lobster back on China menu

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has agreed in a meeting with Anthony Albanese to end the ban on the $800m live lobster trade by the end of the year.

Sarah Ison and Will Glasgow

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