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China
Books & arts
Does Xi’s ideology matter?
John Fitzgerald
11 December 2024
Kevin Rudd sees a clear line between the Chinese president’s worldview and his country’s path. But is it as simple as that?
Books & arts
History’s hinge
Jon Richardson
9 December 2024
How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?
Books & arts
After the factory girls
Antonia Finnane
25 November 2024
Yuan Yang profiles a new generation of Chinese women
International
One country, one system
Mark Baker
22 November 2024
Once again Britain stands by while China breaches the two countries’ agreement on Hong Kong
Books & arts
Utopia’s ghosts
Antonia Finnane
12 November 2024
A Chinese-Australian artist captures the legacies of twentieth-century communism
International
Beijing’s brake
Saul Eslake
24 October 2024
All signs suggest that China is in the grip of a long, self-induced economic slowdown
Essays & reportage
Staying in the room
Hamish McDonald
21 October 2024
Can the “brainy and agile” Penny Wong counter the power of US-centric defence and security agencies?
Books & arts
Mao’s suave controller — or enabler?
Linda Jaivin
1 October 2024
Once described as the Zelig of Chinese politics, Zhou Enlai had an uneasy relationship with the Great Helmsman
Books & arts
Unhealthy ambitions
Mark Edele
12 September 2024
A fine-grained and often funny new history of the Soviet cold war reveals an imperial power promoting itself as a friend of the global liberation struggle
National affairs
The new Asian order
Sam Roggeveen
23 August 2024
Rather than American or Chinese ascendancy in Asia, we’re likely to be facing a “long in-between.” Where does that leave AUKUS?
Books & arts
Beyond Chinese Taipei
Antonia Finnane
6 August 2024
A Taiwan-centred history of the island reveals a nation-in-the-making
National affairs
Think-tanked
Hamish McDonald
22 April 2024
As a China-watching think tank winds up after Morrison-era cuts, a respected analyst reviews government funding for security-related research and education
National affairs
Shadow play
Tony Walker
21 March 2024
Both countries got what they wanted out of Wang Yi’s visit to Canberra
International
Life and death in China’s rustbelt
Antonia Finnane
22 February 2024
How did this candid drama series make it past the censors?
National affairs
Collateral damage
Hamish McDonald
15 February 2024
Yang Hengjun’s sentencing shows a Chinese security apparatus largely oblivious to foreign relations concerns
Books & arts
Heritage hunting
Antonia Finnane
9 February 2024
A great number of migrants left China’s Zhongshan county for Australia — but the traffic wasn’t always one way
International
Tuvalu’s Taiwan question
Jess Marinaccio and Graeme Smith
26 January 2024
Will this week’s election bring a change of orientation for the island nation?
International
The call of history
Antonia Finnane
8 January 2024
Could Taiwan’s 13 January election trigger a war with China?
Books & arts
China’s underground historians
Linda Jaivin
5 January 2024
A veteran China watcher uncovers a network of counter-historians
Correspondents
Taiwan’s cat warrior to the rescue?
Antonia Finnane
24 November 2023
Hsiao Bi-khim’s impressive record might help save Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party from electoral defeat
Correspondents
Rolling with the waves
Hamish McDonald
24 November 2023
The Solomon Islands prime minister has played off China and the West remarkably well
Books & arts
Stolen moments
Linda Jaivin
21 November 2023
Caught between their home villages and the city, a generation of Chinese migrant workers struggles for intimacy
International
Scaling the Great Wall
Mark Baker
30 October 2023
Anthony Albanese’s visit to China late this week comes almost exactly fifty years after Gough Whitlam’s pioneering trip
Essays & reportage
Climate’s quiet achiever
Akshat Rathi
20 October 2023
When the history of electric vehicles is written, who will be seen as central?
Correspondents
Taiwan’s double jeopardy
Antonia Finnane
12 October 2023
In Taipei, National Day tests the temperature of nationalist sentiment
Correspondents
Entangled histories
Antonia Finnane
28 September 2023
A group of Australian MPs in Taiwan this week would have been struck by parallels between the two countries’ First Nations people
Books & arts
Slapped by reality
Linda Jaivin
1 September 2023
A fascinating examination of the Chinese economy leaves one big question unanswered
Books & arts
Spiky questions about the US alliance
Hamish McDonald
26 August 2023
A seasoned analyst outlines the strategy Australia should have debated before the latest bout of defence spending
International
Putin’s isolation intensifies
Lawrence Freedman
23 August 2023
Non-Western powers are increasingly contributing to global pressure on Russia
National affairs
Quad erat demonstrandum?
Hamish McDonald
31 July 2023
A group of Japanese foreign policy experts has a message for the Australian government
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