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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Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu pictured during an interview with The Australian in Taipei. Picture: Annabelle Chih / The Australian

Australia extends Taiwan trade freeze over China fears

Anthony Albanese’s trip to Beijing is the latest in a litany of reasons given for Canberra’s cold shoulder to its fifth biggest trading partner.

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Sydney Swans players with a Chinese dragon on the SCG where a dragon dance performance will take place ahead of the game this weekend against West Coast Eagles to celebrate the Chinese community and their contribution to Australian rules Football. L-R Oliver Florent, Tom McCartin, Joel Amartey, Braeden Campbell, Nick Blakey, James Rowbottom, Logan McDonald and Chad Warner. Photo by Phil Hillyard(Image Supplied for Editorial Use only - **NO ON SALES** - Â©Phil Hillyard )

AFL plays China game in Sydney on Cheng Lei’s birthday

The AFL has played its annual China game in Sydney instead of Shanghai, part of a trend of Australian businesses rethinking how to engage.

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New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, in Beijing in March, where she was given an all-mighty dressing down by China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang.

Beijing’s Wolf Warrior attack on NZ minister

Before NZ Prime Minister Chris Hipkins flies to China to meet Xi Jinping, The Weekend Australian can reveal the epic dressing down given to his foreign minister in Beijing only months ago.

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Socceroos V Argentina Birthday Celebrations for Beijing for Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China70th Birthday., . This young Chinese fan became an unexpected star at Thursday evening's game. Picture - Supplied

Socceroos paid $1m for Xi’s birthday bash

Aussie players bagged a fortune, while an enthusiastic fan showed just what happens when you invade the pitch in China.

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‘fan fever’Nation

Chinese fans react after they catch a glimpse of the Argentine national football team outside a hotel where the team is staying in Beijing on June 12, 2023. Argentina will play a friendly football match against Australia on June 15 at Beijing's newly-renovated 68,000-capacity Workers' Stadium. (Photo by JADE GAO / AFP)

Socceroos ‘stuck’ in Beijing ahead of showdown with Argentina

That Australia is participating in the most hyped sporting event in China since it ended its Covid border ban is a mark of the improvement in the relationship. But strains have also been on display.

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COMMENTARYCommentary

Kafkaesque: China won’t let me in — nor anybody like me

Here’s a brief selection of questions Chinese authorities want answered as they consider whether to let you into their Leninist one-party state.

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Inside Shangri-LaInquirer

China's Minister of National Defence Li Shangfu salutes the audience before delivering a speech during the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on June 4, 2023. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)

Tea with PLA brass, drinks with diplomats

What did I learn from my long weekend at Singapore’s opulent Shangri-La Hotel? The keynote speeches offered plenty of reasons to sleep uneasily.

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Shangri-La conferencePolitics

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Hon Richard Marles MP, met with General Li Shangfu, Minister of Defence, China during the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, on 3 June 2023. *** Local Caption *** Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Hon Richard Marles MP, attended the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on 2-4 June 2023. The International Institute for Strategic Studiesâ€™ (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue is the largest regional security dialogue in the Indo-Pacific, attended by high-level representatives from across the Indo- Pacific and Europe, including around 30 defence ministers, as well as major international defence industry companies and leading academics. The Deputy Prime Minister attended the forum with Prime Minister, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, the Secretary of Defence, Mr Greg Moriarty and the Chief of the Defence Force, General Angus Campbell. Deputy Prime Minister Marles then travelled to Indonesia, Vanuatu, and Kiribati for high-level talks with his counterparts.

Marles ‘haunted’ by prospect of Indo-Pacific war

The Defence Minister revealed on Sunday that he worries Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised the odds of ‘the contest to come’ as China challenges US global dominance.

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MAJOR ADDRESSWorld

‘Mind your own business’, China tells the world

After addressing Beijing’s approach to Taiwan, China’s Defence Minister took a swipe at Australia’s AUKUS deal in a major security address.

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POLITICS NOWPolitics

‘Mind your own business’, China tells the world

Defence Minister Li Shangfu spruiked China having ‘one of the best peace records’, before his address at a security conference in Singapore took a dark turn.

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