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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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‘War zone’World

Fans react after not seeing Inter Miami's Argentine forward Lionel Messi play after the friendly football match between Hong Kong XI and US Inter Miami CF in Hong Kong on February 4, 2024. Inter Miami were booed off the pitch after their injured superstar Lionel Messi failed to take the field in a pre-season friendly in Hong Kong. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP)

No-show Messi has dodgy hammy? Pull the other one, says China

David Beckham’s club has been accused of being part of a ‘black hand’ plot to undermine the Chinese Communist Party.

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Li QiangPolitics

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong are greeted by Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Picture: PMO

Yang’s death sentence hangs over Chinese premier’s visit

Preparations for the first visit by a Chinese leader to Australia in seven years remain underway despite the death sentence given to Yang Hengjun and calls to delay it by his supporters.

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commentaryPolitics

(FILES) This file photo taken on October 23, 2022 shows China's President Xi Jinping speaking during the introduction of members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, to the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping's crackdown on official corruption has ripped through a secretive missile force, the Communist Party elite, the national football team, and now risks hammering a finance industry already grappling with an economic slowdown. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP) / To go with AFP story China-corruption, FOCUS by Matthew WALSH

Global warning: fear rules Xi’s security state

Xi Jinping’s government could not put it any clearer: foreign passports are not going to protect you from China’s legal system with Communist Party characteristics.

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Rapprochement hits realityWorld

Yang Hengjun with his wife Yuan Xiaoliang, main, China's ambassador Xiao Qian arrives at DFAT in Canberra, top right, and Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Beijing’s ghoulish sentence for Australian academic

Yang Hengjun’s suspended death sentence will strain Beijing’s only recently stabilised relationship with Canberra.

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‘Irresponsible remarks’World

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin gestures during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on August 8, 2022. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP)

China warns NZ on joining ‘dangerous’ AUKUS

Beijing’s warning came after Defence Minister Richard Marles said an Australian delegation would ‘very shortly’ travel to Wellington to brief officials.

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Politics

This aerial view shows a housing complex by Chinese property developer Evergrande in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on January 29, 2024. A Hong Kong court on January 29 ordered the liquidation of China's property giant Evergrande, but the firm said it would continue to operate in a case that has become a symbol of the nation's deepening economic woes. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT

Australia ‘monitoring’ China property giant’s crash

The federal government is watching for signs of wider fallout after the liquidation of Evergrande Group.

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PACIFICPolitics

Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese with Prime Minister of Tuvalu Kausea Natano signing a treaty that will safeguard Tuvalu’s future while respecting sovereignty to be known as the ‘Falepili Union’. Photo: X

Tuvalu security pact in jeopardy

Anthony Albanese’s security pact with Tuvalu is on shaky ground following the fall of the country’s prime minister, and may not survive in its current form.

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EXCLUSIVEWorld

Tuvalu Ambassador Bikenibeu Paeniu at his office in Taipei, Taiwan. Photo credit: Will Glasgow / The Australian

Fears of Tuvalu turning to recognition of China

Tuvalu’s ambassador in Taipei fears that after its election next week his country could follow Nauru and switch recognition to Beijing.

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WorldPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. JANUARY 16, 2024: The acting Minister for Defence, Pat Conroy holds a press conference to announce a significant boost to Australia's plan for domestic guided weapons manufacturing and acquisition at Russell Offices in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Nauru asked for cash help: Taiwan

Taiwan says Nauru requested economic aid before its diplomatic switch to recognise China to cover the gap left by the mothballing of Australia’s immigration processing facility.

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US delegation arrivesWorld

This handout from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) taken and released on January 15, 2024 shows Taiwan's President-elected Lai Ching-te (R) shaking hands with former US national security advisor Stephen Hadley during a meeting with an unofficial US delegation at the Presidential Office in Taipei. (Photo by Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Beijing warns Taiwan of ‘harsh punishment’

Foreign Minister Wang Yi sought to put Taipei and its major security backer Washington on notice.

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