This Month
Friend or foe? Europe’s big Chinese EV dilemma
Bad news hasn’t been enough to get European carmakers and politicians to rethink their anti-China strategy. But that’s exactly what might need to happen.
- Hans van Leeuwen
August
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The number that should scare all Australians
You couldn’t blame Australia’s large cap fund managers for booking a post-reporting season trip to China to see the steel situation for themselves.
- Anthony Macdonald
China warns winter is coming for iron ore miners
Australian iron ore exporters believe their mines are resilient despite shares slumping to multi-year lows and Chinese steelmaker Baowu issuing a dire outlook.
- Peter Ker
Talks sanction more US bombers, fighter jets, spy planes in Australia
Annual defence and foreign affairs talks will see Australia deepen its role as the US’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in a potential conflict with China.
- Andrew Tillett and Matthew Cranston
Warnings over ASIO workload because of heightened terror threat
The ASIO chief admits the spy agency is “stretched” as it deals with twin challenges of politically motivated violence and foreign espionage.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Kim Beazley is utterly wrong, says Paul Keating
Former prime minister Paul Keating writes on WA’s risk from China; other writers on uranium mining in Jabiluka; Ismail Haniyeh’s death; lack of AUKUS transparency; and NSW eviction laws.
July
Australia doubles down on its subsea cable diplomacy in South Pacific
The rollout of undersea cables has become a major focus of the strategic competition between Western nations and China to gain influence in the Pacific.
- Updated
- Staff
AUKUS navy chiefs sound alarm over China, Russia, Iran collaboration
The head of the US Navy warns that “unfettered access” to the sea for trade is at risk from authoritarian countries dubbed the “axis of upheaval”
- Andrew Tillett
June
Calls to ban WeChat grow after Canberra clashes
Mandarin-language social media platform WeChat has banned coverage of clashes that broke out between Chinese Australians during Premier Li Qiang’s visit.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
Cheng Lei one day, PNG the next, zigzag diplomacy continues unabated
The circus of embassy staff trying to block vision of journalist Cheng Lei at a ceremony involving the visiting Chinese premier reinforces the difficulty of rebuilding relations with Beijing.
- Phillip Coorey
Enter the panda: China ramps up the soft power
Li Qiang”s visit is the first to Australia by a senior Chinese leader in seven years. On the surface, there will be emphasis on co-operation and mutual respect, but underneath tensions and suspicions remain.
- Andrew Tillett
LME failure on nickel due to its own self-interests: Rudd
The Australian ambassador says prices kept artificially low by China were creating a risk of a 20 per cent slump in global supply of the commodity.
- Matthew Cranston
Business chiefs to talk climate change during Li visit
Boosting ties in mining and energy, agriculture and services will be high on the agenda for Australian and Chinese company chiefs.
- Andrew Tillett
‘Doing justice to freedom’: ex-detainee Cheng Lei to make comedy debut
Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who was freed eight months ago after being detained by China for three years, is making her stand-up debut in Melbourne.
- Gus McCubbing
PM shrugs off concerns over Chinese ownership of lithium plant
Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s planned visit to the lithium plant in Perth highlights the emerging global competition over critical minerals.
- Andrew Tillett
Defence tensions, panda pledge on agenda for Chinese premier’s visit
Li Qiang will dine at an Australian winery, signalling that the rapprochement with an industry devastated by Beijing’s trade sanctions is complete.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Anthony Albanese
Chinese leader tipped to visit lithium plant in Perth
Amid efforts to break China’s stranglehold on critical minerals, Premier Li Qiang is expected to visit the Chinese-controlled Tianqi Lithium Energy in Kwinana.
- Andrew Tillett
Low unemployment is hurting the military
Defence will only hit 57 per cent of its recruiting target this year, Australia’s outgoing military chief says.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Pacific diplomacy
Singapore talks aim to ‘Trump-proof’ new economic deal
Trade Minister Don Farrell will lead a delegation of top Australian investors to Singapore amid fears over the future of the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
- Andrew Tillett
Labor scrambles to end confusion on foreign military recruits
The government has scrambled to clarify that foreigners eligible to join the Defence Force will be limited to just a few countries.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
