Yesterday
- Opinion
- China relations
The US-China trade war has helped polarise ASEAN
Regardless of their alignment or dependence on one side or the other, South-East Asian states need to stay focused on their common regional interests.
- Joseph C. Liow
March
‘Cost blowouts’: China fails to deliver megaprojects
China is unlikely to meet $77 billion in Belt and Road Initiative commitments in South-East Asia, research shows.
- Michael Smith
- Analysis
- International affairs
With Russia distracted, China makes its move in Central Asia
China is the only major country to recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan, a move that could give it access to large lithium and copper deposits.
- Geoff Raby
Mystery lender chases ex-PwC staffer for $30m debt from failed project
Bill Zheng and his Investors Direct Financial group were part of a consortium that proposed to develop the $30 billion Australian Education City near Melbourne.
- Lucas Baird
February
- Opinion
- International affairs
What’s Plan B if America never goes back to normal?
Paul Keating has once again asked whether the US alliance shapes Australia’s view of the world more than it should.
- Bec Strating
- Opinion
- Global economy
Why China can’t stop its decline
The conventional wisdom on China has shifted but still misses the bigger picture.
- Howard W. French
November 2023
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
Warning to developing countries over Chinese hacking
As Pacific leaders gather against the backdrop of China-US competition, a new report highlights how Chinese hackers managed to burrow into Cambodian networks.
- Andrew Tillett
Indonesia’s president pushes US on what happened to the $31b
President Joko Widodo questions the West’s “commitment” to helping developing countries cut climate emissions.
- Alec Russell and Mercedes Ruehl
October 2023
How Xi’s Belt and Road went from pet project to debt bomb
Ten years after its launch, Xi Jinping’s $1 trillion infrastructure project now boasts about 150 members and has made China the world’s largest creditor.
- Michael Smith
September 2023
China bolsters ties with gas-rich Timor-Leste
China’s Xi Jinping has met with Timor-Leste’s Xanana Gusmao, promising greater economic cooperation, including possibilities for joint oil and gas exploration.
- Albee Zhang
- Opinion
- India
What was the point of Modi’s G20 summit?
India will tout the meeting as a victory, but the bloc remains deeply divided, which was demonstrated by Xi Jinping’s no-show.
- Sumit Ganguly
- Opinion
- China’s Great Slowdown
China learns nothing from the financial crises of others
Beijing’s reluctance to bite the bullet on bad assets looks like an error that the whole global economy may pay for.
- Adrian Blundell-Wignall
August 2023
How Fiji got a nasty lesson in Chinese authoritarianism
The Pacific nation watched in shock as Chinese security agents marched what it said were 77 criminal suspects onto a plane and flew them away for detention in China.
- Michael E. Miller and Matthew Abbott
US urges China to be transparent with key data
National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Beijing’s crackdown on information is not “responsible”.
- James Politi
- Opinion
- Inside China
China’s economy is stumbling, and it’s a danger to global security
Beijing’s economic model has hit a wall. But a dictatorship is more likely to seek a foreign adventure than try to reform itself.
- Paul Krugman
Meloni’s new Italian populism puts investors, Beijing on notice
The prime minister’s nine-month-old far-right coalition government is doubling down on a state-led approach to managing prosperity.
- Updated
- Alessandra Migliaccio and Sofia Gerace
June 2023
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
China is going to be the great winner from Putin’s strife
Russia’s failed attempt to make Ukraine into a buffer state is only helping China’s statecraft on its sensitive own western borders.
- Geoff Raby
The hunt for a Huawei spy in the city of spires
When Huawei undercut rival Ericsson’s bid to build Denmark’s 5G phone network, investigators uncovered a web of influence – and became targets themselves.
- Jordan Robertson and Drake Bennett
Italy strips China’s Sinochem of its influence as Pirelli’s largest investor
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government has invoked national security concerns about the potential for misuse of Pirelli’s chip technology, as well as Chinese Communist Party interference.
- Amy Kazmin and Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli
- Opinion
- China relations
China is shifting from riches to risk
Without reform, China faces a long-term growth stall. Investors in the country may have to start thinking very differently.
- Daniel Rosen
