China’s leaders meet this week in Beijing. Top of mind will be the threat posed by the US president.
Elon Musk is China’s favourite Western CEO,but his new role in the Trump administration could soon leave him performing a geopolitical juggling act.
Buildings have been flattened in the Pacific nation’s capital,Port Vila,and several embassies evacuated.
The PM greeted the US and Canadian leaders ahead of the first talks at the APEC summit in Peru,which were skipped by China’s leader Xi Jinping.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had barely touched down in Samoa when the Commonwealth summit faced a split over who should pay to cut emissions.
While the People’s Bank of China’s monetary blitz has ignited the sharemarket,it doesn’t fix its economic crisis. A meeting later this month will tell us more.
The prime minister was the first foreign leader invited to Biden’s private home known as the “Lake House” since he became president.
Why would the notoriously prickly Chinese government let in the notoriously provocative Ye? The answer may lie in China’s struggling economy.
If the iron ore price is a barometer of the health of China’s economy,then it is signalling a level of weakness that ought to galvanise China’s policymakers.
China’s economic mess is weighing heavily on Australia and the rest of the world. Added to Beijing’s concerns is the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House.