China’s most desirable seafood has been hit by an economic trend that could outlive this Year of the Snake: weak consumer confidence in our biggest trading partner. It has ominous implications for Australia’s budget coffers.
New data shows China and Australia’s trade slumped in 2024, even as Beijing, the Albanese government and Peter Dutton’s opposition talked up the future of the economic relationship.
Chinese officials offer a pugnacious Communist Party foreign relations formula when asked how they will approach Donald Trump’s second administration.
Eleven nuclear power stations signed off in a single meeting, more than 1000 thermal coal-fired power stations. China is taking an everything, everywhere, all at once approach to its electricity mix.
Yoon Suk Yeol’s South Korean presidency is in peril after his brazen attempt to break through a domestic political logjam by imposing martial law was followed by a humiliating backflip and rising calls for his impeachment.
The Coalition’s lobbying of the government for increased China access for Beijing-exposed trade is a striking departure from the diversification policy championed by Scott Morrison and comes as an election looms.
Chinese officials have been briefed on the impending closure of Australia’s consulate in Shenyang, which will further the imbalance in diplomatic representation in the two countries.
The US president-elect has put adversaries and allies, including Australia, on notice that he intends to deliver on his tough campaigning rhetoric regarding trade issues.
The second China-America trade war has begun. It is set to get very ugly, very fast.
Labor, the Coalition and Greens show rare cross-party solidarity as the most high-profile figure in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement speaks in court for the first time after years of legal persecution.
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