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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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A Chinese research ship has sailed into Australian waters as the country prepares to head to the polls. , , The Tan Suo Yi Hao, a 94 metre vessel that carries manned and unmanned small submarines, remains in the Great Australian Bightoff South Australia.

China spy ship has Labor all at sea

Defence has handed responsibility for the monitoring of a suspected Chinese spy ship to the Australian Border Force despite Anthony Albanese’s claim that the ADF is on the case.

Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

China’s military build-upWorld

TOPSHOT - People wave flags of Cambodia (R) and China (L) as Chinese training ship Qijiguang prepares to dock with a banner reading

Beijing barges into Taiwan independence ‘culprits’

Images of new Chinese naval barges raise concerns of a potential island invasion as relations with Taipei continue to worsen.

Will Glasgow

‘Changes unseen in a century’World

China comentators compare Donald Trump with Mao Tse Tung and Elon Musk with Madam Mao.

Beijing keeps calm as Trump’s America descends into ‘Cultural Revolution’

The chaos in Washington has transfixed China, as commentators compare Trump with Mao, Musk with Madame Mao and the DOGE employees with the Red Guards as they purge government bodies. Strategists in Beijing see historic opportunities.

Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEWorld

It was all hand-holding and smiles at last year’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro last year for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his favourite communist dictator, Chinese President Xi Jinping. Picture: Getty Images

Trading places: farmers win from Beijing’s new row

Beijing’s strikes on America and Canada have created opportunities for Australian farmers, which could further widen as China targets US agricultural exporters in its trade war with Donald Trump.

Will Glasgow

tensions risingWorld

China's President Xi Jinping speaks as he and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva give a joint statement to the press after a meeting at Planalto Palace in Brasilia on November 20, 2024. China's President Xi Jinping is on a state visit to Brazil, fresh off a warm reception at summits of the G20 and APEC groups, both held under the cloud of Donald Trump's White House return. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP)

Xi orders PLA purge, Washington says no Taiwan invasion on Trump’s watch

The Chinese leader is demanding the country’s armed forces continue to root out corruption following a series of purges that have raised questions about China’s military preparedness.

Will Glasgow

US-China frictionWorld

TOPSHOT - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks at a press conference during the ongoing National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 7, 2025. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)

Beijing warns it will ‘firmly counter’ Trump pressure

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has cast China as a source of ‘precious stability’ in a world made increasingly chaotic by Donald Trump’s America.

Will Glasgow

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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

‘We will fight to the end’: bristling Beijing stands its ground

It has been the guiding star of the Chinese PLA since at least the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 when America replaced the USSR as the military threat that most worried Beijing.

Will Glasgow

war of wordsWorld

This handout picture provided by the US Defense Department (DoD) shows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meeting with US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on February 18, 2025. Hegseth visited Guantanamo Bay, the US military base in Cuba known for holding suspected militants that President Donald Trump's administration is now using to detain undocumented migrants. Trump unveiled a surprise plan last month to hold up to 30,000 migrants at the base -- a facility synonymous with abuses against terror suspects detained there after the September 11, 2001 attacks -- as part of his sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration. (Photo by Handout / DoD / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

US prepared to go to war with China: Hegseth

In an escalating war of words over US tariffs, the US Defence Secretary was responding to a strident statement from China that it was ‘ready to fight any type of war.’

Joe Kelly and Will Glasgow

National People’s CongressWorld

China's President Xi Jinping (L) and Premier Li Qiang attend the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP)

China ramps up defence spending amid ‘severe external environment’

In his keynote address, Premier Li Qiang set an ‘ambitious’ growth target and pledged ‘new combat capabilities’ in a budget delivered during rising tensions with the Trump administration.

Will Glasgow in Beijing

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Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers are seen outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 3, 2025, ahead of the country's annual legislative meetings known as the

Beijing mocks US political chaos, Trump’s ‘logic of pirates’

Beijing has declared that America’s chaotic domestic politics shows the superiority of the Chinese political system, as thousands of Xi Jinping’s top comrades gather in China’s capital.

Will Glasgow

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