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Pandas can’t paper over Australia’s differences with China

Pandas can’t paper over Australia’s differences with China

Premier Li Qiang’s visit was the culmination of hard work by the government to recalibrate the relationship with China. But it also exposed differences that cannot be papered over with diplomatic niceties.

  • by Lisa Visentin

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China renames hundreds of villages in Xinjiang to scrub away Uyghur identity: Human Rights Watch

China renames hundreds of villages in Xinjiang to scrub away Uyghur identity: Human Rights Watch

Villages once known by religious, historical or cultural terms of the Muslim minority group now carry names like “Red flag” or “Unity”.

  • by Lisa Visentin
This man fought on the front lines in Ukraine. Now he is preparing Taiwanese civilians for war with China

This man fought on the front lines in Ukraine. Now he is preparing Taiwanese civilians for war with China

As China ramps up hostilities in the Taiwan Strait, citizens in the island democracy are joining self-defence groups, fearing one day soon they will become civilian resistance to a communist invasion.

  • by Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
Australian judges vow to stay despite mass resignations from Hong Kong’s top court
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Australian judges vow to stay despite mass resignations from Hong Kong’s top court

Former High Court chief justice Robert French has defended the role of Australians serving on Hong Kong’s top court.

  • by Lisa Visentin
Shorten will attend Ukraine peace summit as Zelensky makes surprise Asia visit

Shorten will attend Ukraine peace summit as Zelensky makes surprise Asia visit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to leaders at the Asia defence summit where China said it would be prepared to use force to prevent Taiwanese independence.

  • by Lisa Visentin
Taiwan’s Kinmen islands are a stone’s throw from China. Its inhabitants are torn

Taiwan’s Kinmen islands are a stone’s throw from China. Its inhabitants are torn

If China were to attack Taiwan, this string of islands is at the front line. Kinmen is less than 10 kilometres from the Chinese mainland and remnants of past battles are everywhere.

  • by Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
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When Taiwan changed leader, Beijing sent its own guests, uninvited

When Taiwan changed leader, Beijing sent its own guests, uninvited

This is the atmosphere in which Taiwan on Monday inaugurated its new president, Lai Ching-te.

  • by Peter Hartcher
Meet Xi’s new No.1 enemy: The man at the heart of the US-China superpower battle
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Meet Xi’s new No.1 enemy: The man at the heart of the US-China superpower battle

Taiwan’s new president Lai Ching-te has demanded Beijing stop threatening the island, while urging the world to see the protection of Taiwan’s democratic freedoms as essential to global peace.

  • by Lisa Visentin and Daniel Ceng
Aaron staged a protest in Australia, then Chinese police paid his parents a visit

Aaron staged a protest in Australia, then Chinese police paid his parents a visit

Aaron, an international student studying in Sydney, knows all too well that the industrial-scale surveillance deployed by the Chinese government doesn’t stop at the border.

  • by Lisa Visentin
Australia pays controversial Chinese company millions for Nauru’s new port

Australia pays controversial Chinese company millions for Nauru’s new port

Despite a patchy track record, including allegations of bribery, the Beijing-backed company is delivering a major project for the tiny Pacific nation, which is a major focus in the competition for influence in the region.

  • by Nick McKenzie
MP says Chinese high school students were bussed in to elect him

MP says Chinese high school students were bussed in to elect him

The MP says the teenagers were brought into vote for him in an election that is now central to an inquiry into interference in Canadian elections by foreign countries.

  • by Norimitsu Onishi