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Every weekend, parents of unmarried adults come to the marriage market in Shanghai in hope of finding a good match for their children.

Inside Shanghai’s marriage market - where parents seek a match for their unwed child

Marriage rates are declining across China. But at a pop-up market in Shanghai, parents sit for hours every weekend, advertising their single children’s key attributes.

  • Lisa Visentin

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Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun was handed a suspended death sentence last year.

Australian forced to choose between food and clothes in Beijing jail

In a freezing winter, Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun told Australian officials he could not afford a jumper and had to beg other prisoners for soup.

  • Matthew Knott
Chinese President Xi Jinping, front, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin and Xi pick up the phone to talk close ties after Trump’s return

In the 1.5-hour video call, the leaders discussed the need to “cope with the uncertainty of the external environment”.

  • Vladimir Isachenkov
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

Under Trump, the US and China may be greater friends than ever

Much has been made of the impending trade war between the United States and China, but the mercurial Trump might surprise us all.

  • Baogang He
Trump and China gif

Trade, fentanyl and TikTok: How China is preparing for Trump 2.0

Donald Trump’s White House return means he becomes the man with the greatest power to frustrate Beijing’s ambitions over the next four years

  • Lisa Visentin
China’s population shrank for a third consecutive year in 2024, even as the country saw a modest increase in births

Even a baby boom can’t stop China’s population shrinking

China’s population decline has become a major source of anxiety for policymakers as the country grapples with the economic consequences of a rapidly ageing society.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Donald Trump at a rally in November with Marco Rubio, who has been nominated as secretary of state.

Trump’s cabinet pick says AUKUS a ‘blueprint’ for other US pacts

Secretary of state-in-waiting Marco Rubio has given the strongest indication yet of what Donald Trump will do with the submarine deal.

  • Farrah Tomazin and Michael Koziol
Pit-stop: a US nuclear-powered submarine docks at Rockingham, Western Australia in March last year. The US may not be able to make more than 1.3 such subs a year.

For America, AUKUS is the vehicle to ‘fortify’ Australia against China

Architects of the trilateral defence agreement said Australia should be the “beachhead” to counter Chinese aggression and the AUKUS deal was keeping Xi Jinping awake at night.

  • Michael Koziol

What to expect around the world in 2025

One name keeps popping up as our correspondents note the major issues they will be watching on their patch. It promises to be a wild ride.

  • Lisa Visentin, Zach Hope, Farrah Tomazin, Rob Harris and Lia Timson
Making news in 2024: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kamala Harris, Catherine, Princess of Wales, King Charles III, Syria and Gisèle Pelicot.

The rise and fall of strongmen, and justice for a woman unbowed

It was a year of wars, election surprises, royal health scares and the reign of new queens. Within this maelstrom, one woman’s quiet courage shone through.

  • Lisa Visentin, Zach Hope, Farrah Tomazin, Rob Harris, Matthew Knott, Matt Wade and Lia Timson

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