Showdown: What if Beijing doesn’t blink first?
Trump is forcing a trial of strength with a rival not known for submission and we can only wait to see if the No 2 economic power bows to No 1, with unpredictable, dangerous consequences.
China Ties
ASX 200 rebounds in best day in years; China slams Trump ‘blackmail’
ASX roars back to life in best day since November 2023. $A rose over 1 per cent after Monday’s meltdown. China slams Trump’s 50pc more tariff threat as Hong Kong hits out at ‘bullying’. Bets rise on 0.5pc RBA May rate cut.
Darwin port best in local control
With northern Australia becoming far more strategically significant since 2015, booting out the Chinese company will be a positive election outcome.
Tectonic shift in risk under Trump
One of Australia’s best-known investors says there will be no return to normality after Donald Trump upended markets with his trade war.
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.
Shock and ore as China weaponises rare earths
Rare earth stocks defied the market carnage as China’s move to restrict exports threatened key industries like defence and renewables.
‘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.
Market bloodbath as global trade war escalates
$112bn was wiped off the ASX on Monday with China retaliating against US tariffs and the Trump administration defiant while global markets crashed.
Taking back Port of Darwin should have been done years ago
Granting a Chinese company a 99-year lease of the Port of Darwin was a bad decision made a decade ago.
Minerals become ultimate bargaining chip
Ukraine, an African nation and Denmark are discussing mineral pacts with Washington as President Donald Trump is pressing for access and hoping to outduel China for raw materials.
Why were no tariffs placed on Moscow?
Even Ukraine, whose economy has been devastated in the three years since Russia launched a brutal, all-out invasion, was hit by the new minimum tariff. Yet Russia itself was spared.
Albanese’s cheap media shot turns into a strategic error
Anthony Albanese’s ABC radio interview on Friday was meant to be a cunning political ploy, showing that Labor had thought of the idea of pushing China from the Port of Darwin first. It turned into a word salad of uncertainty, dressed in contradictions and confusion.
Recession fears mount as tariffs wipe $10.8 trillion off Wall Street
Even veterans of Wall Street were feeling the stress of the moment, and the start of perhaps the most turbulent and uncertain time in the markets in years.
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.
US tariffs make Xi Jinping’s day
Donald Trump’s global trade war is a strategic gift to the Chinese president.
Return of the tariff man: why trade protection wins hearts and minds in America
The impetus behind Donald Trump’s tariffs is not difficult to understand when seen against the carnage caused to the US by cheap imports and a predatory China.
Trump tariffs spark five-year AUD low
The Australian Dollar is the weakest it’s been in five years thanks to Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Andrew drags Charles into scandal over Chinese ‘spy’
The King secretly met the Duke of York to discuss his future, including plans for a Chinese investment scheme run by an alleged Beijing spy, a new document claims.
Market carnage as Wall St plunges 6pc, $A dives
A global recession is almost inevitable after China waded into Donald Trump’s trade war with retaliatory tariffs of its own.
‘Great time to get rich’: Trump defiant amid crushing Wall Street losses as China retaliates
A Wall Street bloodbath slashed the S&P 500 by 6 per cent in its worst crisis since the Covid crash, after China matched President Donald Trump’s big raise in tariffs announced earlier this week.
‘Other mums give their kids sushi for lunch … I’m deciding whether to live another day’
Perth mum Nicole Watts shares her extraordinary and brave story of motherhood and mental illness. What’s it like for her to parent while living on the edge?
A tale of two fleets: gunboat diplomacy in an era of rising military power
The parallels between the visits to Australia of Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet in 1908 and Xi Jinping’s Chinese flotilla in 2025 could not be more stark.
China’s northern expulsion from key port of Darwin
Peter Dutton will immediately boot out a Chinese-owned company from the strategic Port of Darwin if he wins the May 3 election and appoint an Australian operator, or take over the lease interest using acquisition powers.
US tariffs push region into China’s arms
One likely reason for Donald Trump coming down so hard on Southeast Asian nations is they are seen to have aided and abetted Chinese efforts to circumvent US trade sanctions.
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.
Dutton vows to remove Port of Darwin from Chinese ownership
Peter Dutton will immediately boot out the Chinese-owned company from the strategic Port of Darwin if he wins the May 3 election and appoint an Australian government-approved operator or acquire the lease interest using powerful Commonwealth acquisition powers.
Trump ‘Liberation Day’ was expected but full of risk
Tariff decision cannot be seen outside the bigger geopolitical forces.
Tariff war is a defensive move
What’s wrong with tariffs? They just protect a nation. Look what free trade with China has done to our manufacturing base, as we can’t compete with cheap labour.
The bigger worry is the tariff bomb Trump has set off in Asia
Asia is the heart of the world’s manufacturing hub with Australia at the start of a complex supply chain. Despite relatively mild tariffs on our exports, Asia’s hit will be seismic.
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.
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