US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China fires back at Trump with 34 per cent tariffs on American goods

Beijing’s most comprehensive response to date in the ratcheting tariff exchange signals it has no intention of surrendering to the US president’s punitive trade measures.

  • Lisa Visentin

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The presence of Chinese research vessel,Tan Suo Yi Hao,tracking a route far off the south coast of Australia has generated days of political debate and prompted Beijing to deny that it is seeking to influence the federal election.

Beijing denounces spy vessel claims as smear campaign

Beijing has rebuffed suggestions that it is seeking to influence the federal election after one of its research vessels travelled past Australia’s southern coast.

  • Lisa Visentin
For Chae Ryan,33,the search for his Korean identity has been a harrowing journey. The South Korean agency that facilitated his adoption to Australia in 1991 is now at the centre of damning inquiry into widespread fraud and malpractice in the country’s adoption system.

‘I believed I was an orphan’:Australians caught up in global adoption scandal

For Chae Ryan,the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He’s not the only one.

  • Lisa Visentin
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
Shinzo Abe falls to the ground.

‘Moonies’ and their millions:Japan cracks down on ‘brainwashing’ church with links to world leaders

An investigation triggered by the shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe found the group had manipulated its followers – known as “Moonies” – into donating money.

  • Lisa Visentin
Xi Jinping (right) shaking hands with once-sidelined entrepreneur Jack Ma in Beijing ahead of a business summit last month chaired by the Chinese president.

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
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Shoppers walk pass the World of Ralph Lauren in Taiku Li Sanlitun,a popular shopping and dining area in Beijing.

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
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi addresses the media on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress in Beijing.

‘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
Military delegates march ahead of the opening session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

‘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
Donald Trump is imposing tariffs on Chinese goods as of midnight Washington time.

China says it ‘will not flinch’ as it meets Trump’s new tariffs with its own

It took only minutes for Beijing to respond to the latest salvo in the US president’s global trade war.

  • Lisa Visentin