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Australians are clear on our biggest threats. But our leaders don’t want to discuss it

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.

  • Peter Hartcher

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Fast food workers at Chinese burger chain Tastien prepare orders at a store in Beijing.

Made in China burger and fries has a side of nationalism

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.

  • Lisa Visentin
America,led by Donald Trump (pictured here with Xi Jinping in 2019),is becoming more like China at a rapid rate.

Peter Hartcher on how Trump is remaking America in China’s image

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.

US stocks suffered the worst two-day drop since December amid escalating trade tensions.

The Trump turmoil has handed China a golden opportunity

Xi Jinping has raced to take advantage of the increased uncertainty sparked by Donald Trump.

  • Chris Price

Day by day,Trump’s America becomes more like Xi’s China

The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing’s repressive controls.

  • Peter Hartcher
The Kremlin’s focus on the Arctic comes as melting ice,triggered by global warming,prompts fresh tensions with the US and Beijing over control of new shipping routes,fishing rights and military outposts.

Ice king:Why Vladimir Putin wants to conquer the Arctic

Vladimir Putin is desperate to exploit the Arctic to help provide a lifeline to Russia’s flagging economy. It won’t be easy.

  • Matt Oliver
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits,social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord,misinformation and disinformation flourish.

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading

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.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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Trump’s Putin charade insults our intelligence

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.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Xi Jinping (right) shaking hands with once-sidelined entrepreneur Jack Ma in Beijing ahead of a business summit last month chaired by the Chinese president.

Xi brought Ma in from the cold. AI investors took notice

He was one of China’s most well-known faces before disappearing from public view. Now Jack Ma is back.

  • Lisa Visentin
If Donald Trump boosts tariffs further,analysts say Xi Jinping will need to unleash big stimulus to hit China’s growth target.

China’s growth goal will need big stimulus if trade war escalates

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.

  • Bloomberg News