Flurry of mass casualty attacks in China causes alarm

Flurry of mass casualty attacks in China causes alarm

There have been at least nine mass killings and attacks in China in 2024 – three more than in the entire previous decade.

  • byCasey Hall

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Media tycoon tells court he did not use Trump officials to influence policy on Hong Kong

Media tycoon tells court he did not use Trump officials to influence policy on Hong Kong

Pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai has taken the stand for the first time since his arrest on national security charges.

  • byLisa Visentin
Rise of the hawks:Trump’s first appointments don’t bode well for China

Rise of the hawks:Trump’s first appointments don’t bode well for China

Donald Trump’s administration is starting to take shape,and his appointees to key positions have something in common:they’re well-known China hawks.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Tight US election casts a shadow over China’s economic planning
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Opinion

Tight US election casts a shadow over China’s economic planning

Xi’s key policymakers are meeting to discuss a large fiscal stimulus package,knowing that the US election outcome could have threatening implications.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
China’s big fiscal stimulus package is coming
Opinion
Opinion

China’s big fiscal stimulus package is coming

The value of the country’s exports grew by 2.4 per cent last month,way short of the 8.7 per cent growth experienced in August.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
My hunt for smuggled Aussie lobster in downtown Beijing

My hunt for smuggled Aussie lobster in downtown Beijing

After years of purgatory,the humble Australian rock lobster will make a triumphant return to banquets in China in the new year. Though,depending on who you ask,it never really left.

  • byLisa Visentin
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Xi’s robocops and driverless cars leaving young people behind
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Xi’s robocops and driverless cars leaving young people behind

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.

  • byLisa Visentin
China’s $20b Australian trade war over as lobster trade resumes

China’s $20b Australian trade war over as lobster trade resumes

Australia’s lobster exports are the last commodity to remain barred from the massive Chinese market.

  • byLisa Visentin andMike Foley
Why global investors made the wrong bet on a big Chinese stimulus

Why global investors made the wrong bet on a big Chinese stimulus

Xi Jinping’s major fiscal stimulus package,which could have capitalised on the big bounce in the sharemarket,has so far failed to materialise.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
China at two speeds:Flying cars,moon trips and millions struggling to survive

China at two speeds:Flying cars,moon trips and millions struggling to survive

Beneath the country’s rising tide of prosperity and modernisation are 300 million workers on whose poor backs the country is being transformed.

  • byLisa Visentin
Slow-motion train crash:Xi Jinping needs to pull China out of its spiral
Opinion
Opinion

Slow-motion train crash:Xi Jinping needs to pull China out of its spiral

China has just announced a fresh set of stimulus measures to try and fix its economy. Once again,they are too half-hearted.

  • byAmbrose Evans-Pritchard