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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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Beijing August 21st 2023Will Glasgow posing for a portrait on a street of Sanlitun.Gilles Sabrie for The Australian

Back to Beijing: China reopens its doors to The Australian

After a four-year forced hiatus, our correspondent is back in China — and just in time to cover one of the most extraordinary stories of the 21st century.

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This handout photo taken on June 5, 2024, and released by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) on June 6, 2024, shows Australiaâs Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L) handing a gift to Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands Jeremiah Manele, during their talks in the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara. Australia touted a

Solomons PM poised for first overseas visit

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele is expected to make his first overseas trip as the new leader of the Pacific Island country to Australia as early as next week.

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Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong looks on during China's Premier Li Qiang's visit to the Adelaide Zoo in Adelaide on June 16, 2024. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake / POOL / AFP)

Wong takes China fight to PNG

Australia has stepped up its support of Papua New Guinea’s security needs, as Penny Wong led a six-minister delegation to Port Moresby.

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Australian journalist Cheng Lei observes a signing ceremony by China's Premier Li Qiang and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra in Canberra on June 17, 2024. Australia expressed its

Cheng Lei blocked from second media event

Sky News Australia journalist Cheng Lei has revealed she was denied entrance to a second press event with the Chinese Premier and Peter Dutton after being told she ‘wasn’t on the list’.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) and China's Premier Li Qiang arrive at the Kaarta Gar-up Lookout in Kings Park before an Australia-China CEO Roundtable in Perth on June 18, 2024. (Photo by RICHARD WAINWRIGHT / POOL / AFP)

PM’s last word on press freedom

Anthony Albanese directly raised concerns about press freedoms with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, as the senior Chinese leader’s visit ended without any breakthrough on lobster imports.

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China's Premier Li Qiang (L) and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shake hands during a signing ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra on June 17, 2024. (Photo by LUKAS COCH / POOL / AFP)

Beijing praises PM for not being ‘under sway of Washington’

Chinese media applauds Anthony Albanese for resisting ‘outside interference’ unlike his ‘confrontational’ predecessor, as new poll finds most people in China have a positive view about Australia.

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Freedom must be priority, Labor told

Yang Hengjun’s supporters have criticised the Albanese government for prioritising pandas and wine over their imprisoned friend as his detention conditions worsen.

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Wang Wang, the panda enjoying an ice pool at the Adelaide Zoo in Adelaide, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. Picture: Matt Loxton

Australia’s relations with China reach peak panda

For all the trade success and bonhomie at Adelaide Zoo, there is unease about what comes after the visit by Xi Jinping’s deputy. Others in Canberra say this is the sweetspot.

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China's Premier Li Qiang speaks during a joint press conference with New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (not pictured) a joint press conference at Government House in Wellington on June 13, 2024. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

PM told to ‘have eyes open’ on Chinese Premier

Donald Trump’s former Asia tsar Matt Pottinger has issued a warning to Anthony Albanese over his meeting with visiting Chinese Premier Li Qiang.

Will Glasgow and Ben Packham

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CANBERRA . May 28, 2024: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles delivers the Keynote speech at the Defending Australia Dinner at The Australian War Memorial in Canberra . Picture: Martin Ollman

Marles to China: ‘you have it wrong’

Richard Marles will spotlight concerning behaviour by China’s military, defying requests by Chinese officials to create a ‘positive atmosphere’ before a rare visit by Premier Li Qiang.

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