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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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Former prime minister Paul Keating has been invited to meet with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short /

China’s top envoy eager to call on Keating

‘Unofficial’ meeting between Wang Yi and ‘voice of reason’ Paul Keating would be the most extraordinary intervention yet in his campaign against Australia’s foreign policy.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. NOVEMBER 6, 2023: Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Don Farrell during Question Time in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

US not our ‘most trusted ally’: Trade Minister

Don Farrell has played down concerns over his comments during Question Time while acting in Penny Wong’s place, saying New Zealand is the country’s closest international partner – not the US – when questioned on the resumption of UNRWA funding.

Sarah Ison, Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEWorld

Australia poised to top China wine market again, but the fat years are over

Australian wine makers will struggle to claw back half of their $1.2bn exports to China even after Xi’s government waives its tariffs. Our correspondent explains why from Beijing.

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AnalysisNation

This photo taken on February 15, 2024 shows a Chinese navy ship shadowing a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources boat (not pictured) near the China-controlled Scarborough Shoal, in disputed waters of the South China Sea. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said on February 28, 2024 the presence of Chinese warships in waters off the Southeast Asian country's coast was

China’s budget to make Australia richer and more anxious

Much of what we are hearing from Beijing, particularly its belligerent rhetoric on Taiwan and the South China Sea, remains deeply troubling.

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NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESSNation

China's Premier Li Qiang speaks during the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2024. (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP)

China sets 5pc growth target amid ‘deep-rooted problems’

Premier Li Qiang revealed the economic target as he delivered the government work report – the closest thing China has to Australia’s budget night.

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economic updateNation

TOPSHOT - A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier stands guard before Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on March 3, 2024, ahead of the country's annual legislative meetings known as the

China troubles fail to interrupt our trade boom

The policy settings made at a meeting of Xi Jinping’s top advisers will likely pour hundreds of billions dollars into Australia this year | WATCH

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red or white?Nation

(FILES) China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang speaks during a press conference at the Media Center of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 7, 2023. China's former foreign minister Qin Gang, who was abruptly removed from office last year and has not been seen in public since, has resigned as a lawmaker, according to state media. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)

China’s Foreign Minister to visit

China’s Foreign Minister is expected to visit Australia in a trip for the first time since 2017, which could signal the end of the country’s wine tariffs.

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‘Very frail’Politics

Yang waives right to appeal death sentence verdict

Australian Yang Hengjun has waived his right to appeal his suspended death sentence in the hope Beijing will allow him to get life-saving medical treatment and lift an ‘exit ban’ on his wife.

Will Glasgow

election pledgePolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 06, 2022:Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in Parliament House in Canberra.Australia and Solomon Islands are part of the Pacific family and have a strong security partnership, based on decades-long policing and maritime cooperation.Australia is Solomon IslandsÃ¢â¬â¢ largest development partner, contributing in all areas of society and the economyÃ¢â¬âfrom health, justice and education, to infrastructure, labour mobility, private sector growth, agriculture and rural development.Prime Minister Albanese last met with Prime Minister Sogavare in July at the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Solomons PM vows: ‘I’ll look to China’

Manasseh Sogavare has unveiled a policy platform that would deepen security and economic ties with China despite Australia’s efforts to strengthen ties.

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‘restless dictatorships’Nation

FILE - 26 AUGUST 2020: Ex Australian PM Tony Abbott has been hired by British PM Boris Johnson to become President of the UK's Board of Trade. He will hold the title jointly with UK Trade Secretary Liz Truss. CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 25: The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott makes a speech during the Governor Generals farewell reception at Parliament House on March 25, 2014 in Canberra, Australia. Quentin Bryce was the first female Governor-General of Australia, her term as the Queen's representative in Australia lasted five and a half years. (Photo by Mark Nolan/Getty Images)

Drums of war are beating, warns Abbott

Tony Abbott warns the free world has entered the ‘post-1945’ era vulnerable to dictatorships, having eroded their defence capabilities over decades.

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