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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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(FILES) In this file photo China's President Xi Jinping raises his glass and proposes a toast at the end of his speech during the welcome banquet for leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 26, 2019. - The global infrastructure plan announced by G7 leaders aims to offer developing nations a credible alternative to China's much-criticized Belt and Road Initiative -- but it faces major hurdles on the ground, especially if Beijing's hiccups are any indication. US President Joe Biden was able to convince the G7 to sign onto the initiative, drawing allies into Washington's strategic rivalry with Beijing, under a plan titled

China open for Australian wine as tariffs binned

The biggest export market for winemakers is again open for business after Beijing announced an end to its politically motivated tariffs that all but wiped out a $1.2bn market.

Eli Greenblat and Will Glasgow

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MARCH 16, 2024: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touring Magill Estate with Don Farrell. Picture: Brenton Edwards

Australia’s trade tactics criticised after WTO loss to China

Trade experts say the Albanese government should never have dropped its wine and barley cases against China in the WTO, saying ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’.

Will Glasgow

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Fortescue executive chairman Andrew Forrest at Beijing’s Tsinghua university on Tuesday. Credit: Supplied

Treasurer correct about economic ambition: Forrest

Fortescue billionaire Andrew Forrest agrees Australia needs more economic ambition, calls out Beijing’s ‘intolerable’ cyberattacks on the UK, and explains why he’s bullish about iron ore.

Will Glasgow

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# Must Credit # 21/03/2024: (L-R) China's ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian, China's foreign minister Wang Yi greet former prime minister of Australia Paul Keating as he arrives for a meeting at the Chinese Consulate in Sydney. MUST CREDIT: CGTN

Giant pander: PJK’s lines like Placido Domingo to China

Paul Keating has amplified Wang Yi’s claims his country is underwriting global living standards and Australia must turn to China to secure its economic future.

Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

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Paul Keating with Wang Yi at the Chinese consulate in Sydney on Thursday.

PJK diminishes himself with made-for-CCTV meeting

This exercise in Chinese statecraft seems to have backfired. Its lasting effect will be to undermine trust between Canberra and Beijing — and further diminish Potts Point’s most outspoken ‘low-level red’.

Will Glasgow

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21/03/2024: Paul Keating with Wang Yi at the Chinese-Consulate in Sydney. Credit: Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

‘Putting it behind us’: Keating tells of China chat

The former PM says Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi showed a ‘keen understanding of Australia’s strengths’ in their controversial private meeting.

Ben Packham, Noah Yim and Will Glasgow

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MARCH 20, 2024: Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Wong’s show of mettle over nickel

Penny Wong has confronted Chinese counterpart Wang Yi over his country’s threat to Australia’s nickel industry.

Ben Packham, Will Glasgow and Dennis Shanahan

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MARCH 20, 2024: Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for talks at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Wang Yi’s trip worsens Australia’s biggest China problem

Most Australians don’t trust Beijing. And this secretive trip by one of Xi Jinping’s top advisers will not be changing their minds.

Will Glasgow

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Clockwise from left: Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and former prime minister Paul Keating. Picture: Getty Images / NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Wong tells China: don’t accept gospel of Paul

Penny Wong has sent a clear message to China ahead of Wang Yi’s meeting with Paul Keating, with details of the envoy’s plans while in Australia revealed.

Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 18: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives for a meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon (not pictured) in Parliament on March 18, 2024 in Wellington, New Zealand. Wang is on a brief tour of New Zealand at a time of escalating tensions in the South China Sea. (Photo by Samuel Rillstone - Pool/Getty Images)

Business in tizz over meeting with Beijing minister

Executives from Rio Tinto and Cochlear are expected to join the private event with China’s visiting foreign minister, as even business figures criticise Paul Keating’s “stupid” meeting with Wang Yi.

Will Glasgow and Ben Packham

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