As the race heats up to charm Riverton’s Chinese voters,Labor’s advertising in a pro-Beijing newspaper linked to China’s United Front has raised eyebrows.
Western Australia's new $396 million museum altered a digital exhibit about China and COVID-19 after complaints from the Chinese community and consul-general.
Market diversification has WA wine producers well placed to emerge unscathed from the China trade crisis.
Outgoing WA treasurer Ben Wyatt has used his last parliamentary speech to lash"commentators and some elected representatives"for attacking China.
The new laws will give the foreign minister the power to veto proposed agreements and scrap existing ones between overseas governments and Australian states,local governments and even universities if they contradict Australia's national interest.
The WA government has sent a senior bureaucrat on a mission to China organised by an organisation advising the Victorian government on its Belt and Road Initiative deal with Beijing.
West Australian farmer Paul O'Meehan was days away from planting his annual barley crop when news of a looming trade war between Australia and China flooded his Twitter feed.
WA has emerged as the front line in a new China trade dispute,with the state's billion-dollar barley industry at risk over Beijing's threat to tax Australian imports and experts warning the West needs to look elsewhere for its future prosperity.
The WA Premier's strategic adviser was forced to delete a tweet referring to Liberal MP Andrew Hastie as an"absolute deads--t"as a war of words in the west showed no sign of abating.
Sinosteel's bid was reviewed by the Foreign Investment Review Board but its purchase,for an undisclosed sum,raised the eyebrows of security experts.
An emotional and acrimonious battle for control of WA's 110-year-old Chung Wah Association has been settled,with a bloc of overseas Chinese losing a key vote.