Michael Kovrig and fellow Canadian Michael Spavor were detained in December 2018 shortly after Canadian police arrested Meng Wanzhou,CFO of Chinese giant Huawei.
The Australian government speaks reassuringly of a “stabilised” relationship with Beijing. China’s national broadcaster portrays a very different state of affairs.
The US is set to ban Chinese-made connected-car technology amid concerns that Beijing could access Americans’ data and even remotely disable cars on US roads.
The incident in 2022 involved a People's Liberation Army aircraft and a RAAF plane.
With unrest mounting over China’s economic slowdown,the government is now grappling with online hatred spilling over into real life violence.
A veil of murkiness continues to hang over the fate of China’s ex-foreign minister Qin Gang,who has not been seen in public since June 2023,even amid fresh reports this week that he had been demoted to a low-level publishing job.
The future of the US relationship with Beijing has been a backseat issue in the presidential campaign,but neither result bodes well for Xi Jinping.
The Biden White House wants to create a new supply chain of democratic powers,including the G7 nations plus South Korea and Australia. But it’s running out of time to make it happen.
Federal prosecutors said that while working in state government,Linda Sun blocked representatives of the Taiwanese government from meeting with officials.
Footage shared by Philippines officials at a press conference showed a Chinese boat “directly and intentionally rammed the Philippine vessel”.
The leaders bowed to Chinese pressure to remove Taiwan from its diplomatic communiqué but it has rejected a bid to cut Taiwan from bloc meetings