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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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Port of DarwinPolitics

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian at a press conference on July 9, 2024. Picture: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China

Give our businesses a fair go, says China

Beijing has warned Australia not to discriminate against the country’s businesses amid a push by both sides of politics to strip Chinese-owned company Landbridge of its lease over the Port of Darwin.

Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEWorld

TWAM-20180120 Embargo for TWAM 20 JAN 2018NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSIONYIWU , CHINA - SEPTEMBER 24: A Chinese trader waits for customers at his stall selling wholesale toy balls at the Yiwu International Trade City on September 24, 2015 in Yiwu, China. Considered the largest small commodity market in the world, the 46 million square foot facility houses more than 60 thousand vendors and 100,000 suppliers selling 400,000 products. Two-thirds of the goods are for export from factories across China to over 200 countries, mainly Russia, the Middle East, Africa and South America. A slowdown among China's manufacturers has triggered global concern of a drop in economic growth in the world's second largest economy. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

‘Sky is falling’: fear and loathing in Chinese shopping aisles as trade city takes stock

Chinese stockmarkets have tanked and business owners are angry, as The Australian discovered on a visit to Yiwu, China’s biggest wholesale market.

Will Glasgow

Counter-attack escalatesWorld

The deal was designed to address security concerns by separating TikTok from its parent company. Picture: AP

China scuttles TikTok deal as Trump admits Beijing ‘not very happy’

Representatives from ByteDance, the social media platform’s Chinese parent company, said approval for the transaction has been withdrawn.

Will Glasgow

‘struggle for survival’World

Trump open to negotiate China tariffs with Xi over TikTok

The US President suggests he could cut the 65 per cent tariff rate if Beijing allows a sale of TikTok, but Chinese government advisers warn China is now in a ‘struggle for survival’ with America.

Will Glasgow

trade warWorld

TOPSHOT - A container ship sails it approaches a port in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province on April 2, 2025. US President Donald Trump ignited a potentially ruinous global trade war on April 2, as he slapped 10 percent tariffs on imports from around the world and harsh extra levies on key trading partners. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) / China OUT

Beijing threatens counterpunch as fears for local economy intensify

After the cumulative tariff rate on Chinese imports were raised to almost 70pc, China’s response has stoked fears the Australian economy will be shaken by the worst trade war since the 1930s.

Will Glasgow

analysisWorld

9 March 2025; A photo comp of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping floating on their countries with their respective flags behind the. Artwork by Emilia Tortorella. Sources: supplied and iStock. Ratio 16:9.

China faces 60 per cent tariffs and Australia will feel their pain

The economic relationship between the US and China, the world’s two biggest economies, will never be the same.

Will Glasgow

Nation

Recession looms in UK as EU flags retaliation against US tariffs

Analysts say a teetering British economy looks likely to fall into recession after Donald Trump’s tariffs, and while the UK does not plan to retaliate, EU states are considering their response.

Jacquelin Magnay, Will Glasgow, Greg Brown, Joe Kelly, Noah Yim and Richard Ferguson

ELECTION 2025Nation

Caption: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a 30 minute bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Monday November 18, 2024. Picture: Supplied/handout/Prime Minister's Office

Beijing praises PM, accuses Dutton of ‘beating the drums of war’

Beijing accused Australia of ‘paranoia’ over a Chinese research vessel, as a government-owned masthead suggests the Chinese government’s preferences in the May 3 election.

Will Glasgow

South China Sea tensionWorld

TOPSHOT - This handout photo taken on March 31, 2025 and released by the Taiwan Defence Ministry on April 1, 2025 shows the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong sailing in waters off Taiwan. China on April 1 sent its army, navy, air and rocket forces to surround Taiwan for drills Beijing said were aimed at practising a blockade of the self-ruled island. (Photo by Handout / TAIWAN DEFENCE MINISTRY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Chinese military rehearses full ‘blockade’ of Taiwan

China launched army, navy, air and rocket forces around Taiwan and labelled the Taiwanese president a ‘parasite’ in a show of military intimation and propaganda denounced by Taipei.

Will Glasgow

trump’s trade warWorld

‘Matter of life or death’: Chinese exporters in fear over tariffs

Xi Jinping has cast China as an island of stability ahead of Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’, but exporters fear a tsunami of tariffs will submerge the global trading system that China has benefited from more than any other country.

Will Glasgow

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