Scott Morrison tells US Australia risks going to sleep on China threat after diplomatic ‘charm and flattery’ | Australia news

The Chinese Communist party hopes Western democracies “go to sleep on the threat” it poses to the international order, former prime minister Scott Morrison has told a congressional committee in the US.... Read more »

Total recall? Campaigners employ quirk of Taiwan’s political system to turn on ‘pro-China’ candidates | Taiwan

On a steamy night deep in one of Taipei’s most conservative suburbs, a group of elderly neighbours are yelling at each other next to a garbage truck. They have just been handed... Read more »

Arrests in China after more than 230 kindergarten children poisoned by lead paint in food | China

Chinese authorities have arrested six people and launched disciplinary investigations into almost 30 others after more than 230 kindergarten children were poisoned by food coloured with industrial-grade lead paint The incident, which... Read more »

BRI Generates Record Investments in Early 2025, as Foreign Media Push Continues

At the start of 2025, analysts reflected on the trajectory of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) more than a decade after its launch. Years of massive overseas lending brought China to... Read more »

Australia politics live: PM says welcome to country a ‘powerful way’ to begin new parliament; Greens to push for climate trigger law | Australia news

Albanese says welcome to countries not controversial – ‘nor should it be’ Going back to Anthony Albanese’s address to the great hall, he said the welcome to country is a “powerful way”... Read more »

China starts building world’s biggest hydropower dam | China

Construction of the world’s biggest hydropower megadam has begun, China’s premier has said, calling it the “project of the century”. The huge structure is being built on the Yarlung Tsangpo river, in... Read more »

Caught between a fossil fuel past and a green future, China’s coal miners chart an uncertain path | China

Gazing over the remains of his home, Wang Bingbing surveys a decades-old jujube tree flowering through the rubble, and the yard where he and his wife once raised pigs, now a pile... Read more »

Map: Tracking Tropical Storm Wipha

Wipha was a tropical storm over China Monday morning China Standard Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory. Forecast wind speeds and direction Typhoon season is year-round; however,... Read more »

Xi Jinping has more than Donald Trump on his mind

The problem in EVs, solar panels, batteries and other industries that supply them – and it’s not a problem confined to those sectors – is that China’s economic model has prioritised investment,... Read more »

EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu | Retail industry

The EU justice commissioner has expressed shock at the toxicity and dangers of some goods being sold by Shein and Temu, amid a crackdown on the popular Chinese retail platforms. With 12m... Read more »