"That is not the way to do diplomacy... it should be done government to government,"the US ambassador to Australia said.
Suspended Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane had his party membership reinstated just months after the Australian Federal Police raided his home and office.
Beijing is trying to generate political pressure on the Morrison government through strategic trade sanctions,but so far it's not working.
An encounter over a seemingly innocuous sticker on a Labor senator's office door underscored the bitter divisions within Labor over China.
A new book claims that cultural anxiety,insecurity and paranoia lurk just beneath the surface of contemporary China's politics.
Senator Andrew Bragg appeared to weigh in to the controversy that had embroiled Senator Eric Abetz,who recently called on three inquiry witnesses to"unequivocally condemn"the Chinese Communist Party.
An Australian-born academic says he was insulted to be confronted at a Senate hearing on Wednesday and asked to condemn China's ruling party.
Universities Australia said it had counted almost 20,000 agreements that could captured by the review powers in the proposed laws,but the final figure could be far higher.
Concerns about China's growing influence in the Asia-Pacific are expediting the creation of international allegiances,unified by their wariness of the authoritarian state.
A Labor-aligned candidate running in a Melbourne council ward says she no longer wants to win after being accused of being a Chinese agent of influence.
The proposal for a"Torch"centre in Melbourne has prompted warnings about potential national security implications and intellectual property theft.