Xi Jinping’s modernisation agenda aims to transform China into a high-tech superpower. At a job fair in central Beijing,the future isn’t so promising.
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.
Australia US,India and Japan have called out Beijing’s aggression in the South China Sea and cyber espionage but stopped short of naming China directly.
The UK,US and the EU are among those sanctioning Chinese companies accused of helping Russia wreak havoc in Ukraine. The Albanese government is an outlier.
Premier Li Qiang’s visit was the culmination of hard work by the government to recalibrate the relationship with China. But it also exposed differences that cannot be papered over with diplomatic niceties.
Villages once known by religious,historical or cultural terms of the Muslim minority group now carry names like “Red flag” or “Unity”.
As China ramps up hostilities in the Taiwan Strait,citizens in the island democracy are joining self-defence groups,fearing one day soon they will become civilian resistance to a communist invasion.
Former High Court chief justice Robert French has defended the role of Australians serving on Hong Kong’s top court.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to leaders at the Asia defence summit where China said it would be prepared to use force to prevent Taiwanese independence.
If China were to attack Taiwan,this string of islands is at the front line. Kinmen is less than 10 kilometres from the Chinese mainland and remnants of past battles are everywhere.
This is the atmosphere in which Taiwan on Monday inaugurated its new president,Lai Ching-te.