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Elon Musk’s meetings included one with Chinese Premier Li Qiang.

Elon Musk is a ‘huge fan’ of China. Will Trump tear them apart?

Elon Musk is China’s favourite Western CEO, but his new role in the Trump administration could soon leave him performing a geopolitical juggling act.

  • Katrina Northrop and Lyric Li

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Buildings damaged after magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes near Port Vila, Vanuatu.

‘We definitely need help’: Australian’s rescue plea as magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits Vanuatu

Buildings have been flattened in the Pacific nation’s capital, Port Vila, and several embassies evacuated.

  • Paul Sakkal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets US President Joe Biden at APEC Leaders’ Informal Dialogue.

Bro handshakes and bear hugs as Albanese meets Biden and Trudeau

The PM greeted the US and Canadian leaders ahead of the first talks at the APEC summit in Peru, which were skipped by China’s leader Xi Jinping.

  • David Crowe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference in Apia, Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

Pacific leaders blame Australia for role in climate crisis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had barely touched down in Samoa when the Commonwealth summit faced a split over who should pay to cut emissions.

  • David Crowe
Xi Jinping is finally making some meaningful moves to solve China’s property problem.

China is in deep trouble despite a surging sharemarket

While the People’s Bank of China’s monetary blitz has ignited the sharemarket, it doesn’t fix its economic crisis. A meeting later this month will tell us more.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Anthony Albanese and Joe Biden exchange gifts.

Albanese says he can learn from his ‘fit friend’, Joe Biden

The prime minister was the first foreign leader invited to Biden’s private home known as the “Lake House” since he became president.

  • Farrah Tomazin
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Kanye West, known as Ye, watches an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles.

China’s censors are letting Kanye West perform there. His fans are amazed

Why would the notoriously prickly Chinese government let in the notoriously provocative Ye? The answer may lie in China’s struggling economy.

  • Vivian Wang
A ship unloader at Wu port of Taicang port unloading iron ore imported from Australia, Brazil and other countries. Prices for the metal have been sinking amid lower demand from China.

Iron ore slump shows that China’s deflation risk is rising

If the iron ore price is a barometer of the health of China’s economy, then it is signalling a level of weakness that ought to galvanise China’s policymakers.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Trump’s dream of grand bargains with dictators such as Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin is already worrying US allies.

Xi Jinping has no plan B as the mood in China darkens

China’s economic mess is weighing heavily on Australia and the rest of the world. Added to Beijing’s concerns is the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese talks with Kurt M. Campbell, United States Deputy Secretary of State at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga.

Why are our leaders so loose in the Pacific?

Anthony Albanese’s hot-mic moment wasn’t like Peter Dutton’s joke about Pacific nations going underwater, but US official Kurt Campbell’s remarks were tantalising.

  • Matthew Knott

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