China
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$200k to betray a neighbour: The Hong Kong letters pursuing dissidents in Australia
The office of Foreign Minister Penny Wong has raised concerns with Chinese authorities after letters appeared on Australian doorsteps offering large sums of money for information about dissidents.
- Cassandra Morgan and Eryk Bagshaw
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The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading
It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.
- Nick Bonyhady
Old bones on jungle island sound warning to those living here today
Takamatsu runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge - parts of the skulls, he says, of an infant and possibly an adult.
- Ayaka McGill, Hiro Komae and Mari Yamaguchi
Xi brought Ma in from the cold. AI investors took notice
He was one of China’s most well-known faces before disappearing from public view. Now Jack Ma is back.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- EU
Trump is changing the narratives on both sides of the Atlantic
The president’s policies and his decision to force Ukraine into a peace deal with Russia have prompted Europe to take steps that were unimaginable before he regained the White House.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
What a $5000 Chanel handbag tells you about China’s economy
In Beijing, the squeezing of the upper middle class shows just how far into Chinese society the economic slowdown is reaching.
- Lisa Visentin
‘Those with bigger fists should not be allowed to call the shots’: China takes aim at Trump
As the US president upends decades of foreign policy, China stepped forward on Friday to sell its own alternative to the US-led global world order.
- Lisa Visentin
- Opinion
- Oil
More than ‘a little disturbance’: Trump and OPEC are sinking the oil price
This week, OPEC+ did what Donald Trump has demanded and announced it would start increasing production, pushing oil prices down to three-year lows. Trump may get more than he bargained for.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Exclusive
- Defence
Trump admin to Australia: spending $56 billion on defence isn’t enough by half
One of Trump’s top Pentagon picks, Elbridge Colby, made the United States’ first explicit call for Australia to massively increase defence spending to counter China.
- Matthew Knott
- Updated
- Inside China
‘Changes unseen in a century’: China braces for shifting global order
As a trade war with the United States begins, China wants to fire up its economy and plans to increase defence spending.
- Lisa Visentin
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