Put defence ahead of sugar hits
National security should be the Coalition’s strong suit.
China Ties
The dirty business of new energy
Charities must stay away from slavery and funding political sides.
China accuses US spy agency of cyberattacks
Beijing is growing increasingly aggressive in pushing back against perceived efforts by the US to prevent China’s rise.
Downing St backed Chinese investment in critical infrastructure
Energy secretary Ed Miliband promised ‘close co-operation’ with Beijing a month before the government wrested control of British Steel from Jingye.
‘The sky won’t fall’: Chinese exporters explore grey channels to dodge tariffs
Beijing says it will diversify from America unless Donald Trump ‘corrects’ his ‘erroneous’ tariffs even as exporters look at siphoning goods through other countries to avoid whopping levies.
Why China will target Silicon Valley next
The fallout from Donald Trump’s tariffs is set to continue, with tech giants and Wall Street in the firing line. There are also changes in Europe which is rekindling Chinese President Xi Jinping’s dream.
Pharma tariffs are on their way – ‘I have a timeline’: Trump
Donald Trump opens the door to tariffs targeting high-end technology and pharmaceuticals, saying they would be similar to the 25 per cent levies on steel and aluminium.
Watch out, Chinese batteries to flood into Australia intensifying cyber attack risk
China is set to dump more of its home batteries on Australians in the wake of Donald Trump’s crippling tariffs, a local manufacturer warns.
China’s move on rare earths ‘highlights need for stockpile’
China’s action in moving to cut off the supply of rare earths and permanent magnets to the Western world underlines the need for Australia to create a strategic reserve of critical minerals.
Xi drops in to charm neighbours
The Chinese leader’s ‘tea and sympathy’ tour will be welcome in Southeast Asia’s tariff-clobbered capitals, though it could be lighter on sweeteners than risk
Xi woos SE Asian neighbours stunned by Trump tariffs
Xi Jinping is beginning a week-long tour of the region in Vietnam as he seeks to take advantage of US tariffs by offering closer partnership with the emerging nations of southeast Asia.
Red flags: How China plans to exploit Trump’s weaknesses
Chinese President Xi Jinping has a carefully prepared long term plan to gain ascendancy over the US, and the public skirmish over tariffs is merely a surface indicator of a much deeper battle being fought on many fronts.
‘Nobody is off the hook’ for tariffs, exemptions may be short-lived
Donald Trump says tech-related tariff exemptions are a temporary reprieve as China suspends exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets.
‘Block China from infrastructure’ over British Steel ‘sabotage’ claims
Westminster is told the British Steel crisis should be the ‘canary in the coalmine’ that reveals the risk of Chinese companies in critical infrastructure, amid suspicion Jingye tried to force the UK to become reliant on China steel.
ASX 200 surges on tech, mining gains
Tech investors pile in despite Trump exemptions confusion. Property, health stocks also strong gainers. China’s exports surged in March. Future of bank stocks clouded: Citi.
Trump’s tariff warfare poses no existential threat to Xi’s China
Donald Trump still imaginatively inhabits the world of his developer father, when the US encapsulated modernity, progress and prosperity. That has changed, of course. China now has choices of its own.
Probing China’s role in Ukraine
Evidence of Chinese citizens joining the Russian military to fight against Ukraine adds a grave new strategic dimension to Vladimir Putin’s lawless attempt to overrun the sovereign democratic nation.
Stocks tipped to rise after electronics tariff exemption
The local sharemarket is poised for a modest bounce after US tech heavyweights including Apple took a breather from punishing tariff wars.
British Steel workers stop Chinese bosses from entering mill, as UK parliament dramatically takes control of the company
The British government has taken over and stopped the closure of a Chinese-owned steel mill in Scunthorpe, England, as worried steelworkers stop Chinese executive owners from entering the site.
UK government to take control of Chinese-owned British Steel
At a rare weekend session, parliament approved the law to avert the shutdown of the UK’s last factory that can make steel from scratch, hours after workers evicted Chinese executives from the site, fearing sabotage.
‘Dwarfs Covid’: China act to tank Australia
The Australian economy is vulnerable to a recession larger than the global financial crisis on this simple act by China.
World takes urgent steps to prepare for trade war downturn
Governments from Europe to Asia are bracing their economies for a rocky road as China raises tariffs on US goods to 125 per cent.
Top Australian judge quits Hong Kong court
Robert French’s resignation comes amid a years-long exodus of overseas jurists.
Trump insists tariff policy ‘doing really well’
Wall Street stocks largely retreated on Friday as major indexes struggled to regain ground after a turbulent week buffeted by Donald Trump’s seesawing on tariffs.
Beware the bull in the china shop
The stockmarket reports make for grim reading and one struggles to find the appropriate expression that describes the carnage initiated by the decisions of President Donald Trump.
Great powers get set to divorce
We are ill-prepared to weather the storm of US-China uncoupling.
Is Trump killing the America we’ve always loved?
The US administration’s tariff chaos has roiled markets, distressed allies and will embolden America’s enemies. It’s too high a price to pay for Trump’s confused and contradictory ambitions.
Why everyone will suffer in US-China economic war
The gloves are off. The next chapter of US-China decoupling has begun. The pain will be felt everywhere.
Beijing hikes tariffs, declares Trump’s trade wars ‘a joke’
China has hiked tariffs on America to 125 per cent but declared it would not lift them further, ending Beijing’s tit-for-tat response with Washington even as the world’s two biggest economies look for fresh ways to harm each other.
Xi quick to engage in Trump’s battle of ‘strongman’ wills
China’s leader has a historical obsession so chilling that, as with the US President’s most shocking statements, many hope it is not meant to be taken literally.
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