Voters want to know what the contenders for the prime ministership will do to protect the national interest. Neither Albanese nor Dutton so far have any answers for them.
I went to a Tastien fast food outlet to try the burger that’s designed to knock McDonald’s and KFC off their Beijing perch. Some come here just for the buns.
A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.
Xi Jinping has raced to take advantage of the increased uncertainty sparked by Donald Trump.
The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing’s repressive controls.
Vladimir Putin is desperate to exploit the Arctic to help provide a lifeline to Russia’s flagging economy. It won’t be easy.
It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.
Donald Trump is snatching Western defeat from the jaws of victory in Ukraine. He is extending a lifeline to a struggling war criminal running out of ways to fund his mischief.
He was one of China’s most well-known faces before disappearing from public view. Now Jack Ma is back.
President Xi Jinping signalled China’s determination to push ahead with an ambitious growth goal this year,despite the trade war. But things might get ugly.