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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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‘Tight hugs, spring sunshine’Media

Return to Australia of Cheng Lei at Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne on Wednesday 11 October 2023. Cheng Lei was detained in China for more than three years.

Cheng Lei’s shock homecoming

The mother of two is back on home soil in Melbourne after a three-year ordeal. The Australian can reveal Canberra learned only in the past fortnight of the deal that would allow her release.

Will Glasgow, Greg Brown and Tricia Rivera

Security tiesPolitics

10-10-2023 - Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressing Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday in Taipei. Picture: Taiwan Presidential Office

Taiwan’s President thanks Morrison

Scott Morrison has dismissed warnings from Beijing and met with President Tsai on Taiwan’s national day to discuss ways to create a ‘strong deterrent against any violence or any aggression’.

Will Glasgow

Golden WeekWorld

Passengers arrive at Beijing railway station on the first day of peak travel ahead of the National Day holidays in China's capital city on September 29, 2023. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP)

Resilient Chinese hit the road at last

China is finally having a blockbuster holiday free of restrictions. Data suggests this Golden Week is on track to break records.

Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Chinese Ambassador Xiao Qian makes a toast before addressing attendees of a reception celebrating the 74th anniversary of the PRC's founding in Sydney on Thursday, September 28, 2023. Picture: Nikki Short

Morrison hits back at envoy over Taiwan comments

Scott Morrison has lashed China’s top diplomat in Australia, declaring the envoy has no right to tell Australian MPs they cannot travel to Taiwan.

Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

asymmetric warfareWorld

Taiwan's first locally built submarine is seen before Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen unveils it at the CSBC Corporation shipbuilding company in Kaohsiung on September 28, 2023. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)

Taiwan unveils first home-built sub

Sub was built with engineers and former naval officers from Australia, South Korea, India, Spain and Canada.

Will Glasgow

’Test for PM’Politics

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen meets in Taipei on Tuesday with an Australian parliamentary delegation led by Labor MP Josh Wilson and Liberal MP Paul Fletcher. Picture: Taiwan Presidential Office

China warns Albanese over MPs in Taiwan

Beijing says the ‘provocative behaviour’ of a delegation in the island nation could stall negotiations over China’s crippling wine tariff.

Will Glasgow

Beijing ramps up drillsWorld

A Taiwanese special forces unit demonstrate their combat skills during a military open house event in Hsinchu on September 21, 2023. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)

Aussie MPs meet Taiwan leaders

Taipei has welcomed a cross-party heavyweight Australian delegation amid fears China’s military drills risk ‘getting out of hand’.

Will Glasgow

InquirerInquirer

A man walks past closed food stalls at a mall in Beijing on August 15, 2023. Global stocks fell on August 15, after disappointing data from China deepened concerns over the state of the world's second-largest economy. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP)

Journey into Fortress Beijing: walls against the West rise higher

Beijing has never been a cosmopolitan city since the Communist Party took over, but right now it feels more isolated than it has in decades.

Will Glasgow

exclusiveRetail

--FILE--Chinese customers shop for wine imported from Australia, the United States or France at a supermarket in Xuchang city, central China's Henan province, 17 October 2013. Chinese buyers have developed a taste for more than just Australian stock of residential property and farmland, there's a renewed thirst for Australian wine in Asia, helping to drive the first annual increase in the value of exports in eight years. After years of suffering through a sustained austerity campaign from central government officials in Beijing, which put a dampener on banqueting and sapped demand for anything tinged with luxury, including wine, spirits and expensive watches, the middle class and richer Chinese are once again in the mood to buy. And increasingly they are reaching for a bottle of premium Australian wine. The weaker Australian dollar is also playing its part, while free-trade agreements in Asia are delivering immediate sales to Australian winemakers. According to Wine Australia, the value of Australian wine exports in the 12 months to June 30 rose 5 per cent to $1.89 billion, the first time the value of exports has increased on a financial year basis since 2006-07.

China offers ‘package’ deal to end wine tariffs

Senior officials in the Chinese government have told their Australian counterparts the wine tariff could be “properly resolved” in coming months.

Will Glasgow and Eli Greenblat

extramarital affairWorld

BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 07: China's foreign minister Qin Gang holds a China's constitution during a press conference at Media Center on March 07, 2023 in Beijing, China. Foreign Minister Qin Gang answered questions from Chinese and foreign journalists on China's foreign policy and foreign relations. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Xi’s pick for foreign minister dismissed over love child

Senior communist officials have been told Qin Gang was removed because of ‘lifestyle issues’, a euphemism for his affair with a TV host.

Will Glasgow

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