Will Glasgow

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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NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESSNation

China's Premier Li Qiang speaks during the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2024. (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP)

China sets 5pc growth target amid ‘deep-rooted problems’

Premier Li Qiang revealed the economic target as he delivered the government work report – the closest thing China has to Australia’s budget night.

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economic updateNation

TOPSHOT - A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier stands guard before Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on March 3, 2024, ahead of the country's annual legislative meetings known as the "Two Sessions". (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP)

China troubles fail to interrupt our trade boom

The policy settings made at a meeting of Xi Jinping’s top advisers will likely pour hundreds of billions dollars into Australia this year | WATCH

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red or white?Nation

(FILES) China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang speaks during a press conference at the Media Center of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 7, 2023. China's former foreign minister Qin Gang, who was abruptly removed from office last year and has not been seen in public since, has resigned as a lawmaker, according to state media. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)

China’s Foreign Minister to visit

China’s Foreign Minister is expected to visit Australia in a trip for the first time since 2017, which could signal the end of the country’s wine tariffs.

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‘Very frail’Politics

Yang waives right to appeal death sentence verdict

Australian Yang Hengjun has waived his right to appeal his suspended death sentence in the hope Beijing will allow him to get life-saving medical treatment and lift an ‘exit ban’ on his wife.

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election pledgePolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 06, 2022:Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in Parliament House in Canberra.Australia and Solomon Islands are part of the Pacific family and have a strong security partnership, based on decades-long policing and maritime cooperation.Australia is Solomon IslandsÃ¢â¬â¢ largest development partner, contributing in all areas of society and the economyÃ¢â¬âfrom health, justice and education, to infrastructure, labour mobility, private sector growth, agriculture and rural development.Prime Minister Albanese last met with Prime Minister Sogavare in July at the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Solomons PM vows: ‘I’ll look to China’

Manasseh Sogavare has unveiled a policy platform that would deepen security and economic ties with China despite Australia’s efforts to strengthen ties.

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‘restless dictatorships’Nation

FILE - 26 AUGUST 2020: Ex Australian PM Tony Abbott has been hired by British PM Boris Johnson to become President of the UK's Board of Trade. He will hold the title jointly with UK Trade Secretary Liz Truss. CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 25: The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott makes a speech during the Governor Generals farewell reception at Parliament House on March 25, 2014 in Canberra, Australia. Quentin Bryce was the first female Governor-General of Australia, her term as the Queen's representative in Australia lasted five and a half years. (Photo by Mark Nolan/Getty Images)

Drums of war are beating, warns Abbott

Tony Abbott warns the free world has entered the ‘post-1945’ era vulnerable to dictatorships, having eroded their defence capabilities over decades.

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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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