NewsBite

China relations

Advertisement
A Buddhist monk walks near a collapsed pagoda in Mandalay after Friday’s earthquake.

Quake disaster has exposed a Trump-sized void on the world stage. China is stepping in

The US has not been perfect in its application of soft power over the years, but diplomacy and aid are preferable to war and weapons.

  • Michael Ruffles

Latest

US Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday.

Vance attacks Denmark in ‘aggressive’ visit to Greenland

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

  • Benedict Smith
Fast food workers at Chinese burger chain Tastien prepare orders at a store in Beijing.

Made in China burger and fries has a side of nationalism

I went to a Tastien fast food outlet to try the burger that’s designed to knock McDonald’s and KFC off their Beijing perch. Some come here just for the buns.

  • Lisa Visentin
America, led by Donald Trump (pictured here with Xi Jinping in 2019), is becoming more like China at a rapid rate.

Peter Hartcher on how Trump is remaking America in China’s image

A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.

Ted Hui, a former Hong Kong pro- democracy legislator, is now in exile in Australia.

‘Gangster regime’: Hong Kong dissident targeted by threatening letter

An exiled Hong Kong activist has insisted he will not be silenced after his Australian law firm received a threatening letter offering a reward for his arrest.

  • Matthew Knott

Day by day, Trump’s America becomes more like Xi’s China

The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing’s repressive controls.

  • Peter Hartcher
Advertisement
The Hong Kong government has a $200,000 bounty on the head of Australian pro-democracy activist Kevin Yam.

I have a price on my head. I hope my neighbours won’t try to cash in

This week, letters arrived at homes in Melbourne offering a $200,000 bounty on my head. It would be claimable if I was taken to Hong Kong. In short, the letters call for me to be kidnapped.

  • Kevin Yam
Exiled Hong Kong lawyer Kevin Yam.

$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
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits, social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord, misinformation and disinformation flourish.

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

Trump’s paired bad ideas from left and right. The results will be calamitous

Trump and Musk’s new policies will make the rich richer and the poor poorer. What could go wrong?

  • Peter Hartcher

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/china-relations-1n86