As Prepared for Delivery Good morning, everyone. Dean Steinberg, thank you for your kind introduction. And thank you for your service to our country. I’m grateful for your contributions – not only...

Australia's closest security allies, led by the United States, have been the biggest beneficiaries of Beijing's campaign of economic coercion against Canberra, according to a new report.

The Albanese government needs better than second-rate advice to stabilise relations with China.

After all the rants and insults, the political freeze and the trade bans, Xi Jinping brought his intimidation campaign of Australia to a politely meek end.

Australians’ expectations that China will invade their country are twice as high as they are among Taiwanese, new data reveals.

(Bloomberg) -- ASML Holding NV, the leading provider of chipmaking equipment, is facing tighter restrictions on its ability to work with Chinese customers, a further escalation in the technology...

Australian universities will work more closely with those in the UK and US after receiving a “clear signal” from the government to diversify and move away from Chinese research partnerships.

Restrictions will limit Chinese companies’ access to advanced computer chips and slow their progress in artificial intelligence

The Albanese government’s Defence Strategic Review warns us we are witnessing a Chinese military build-up that is the largest and most ambitious by any country since the end of World War II. Beijing...

Exclusive: Twice as many share former PM’s opinion that Australia should be a middle power in Asia than those who back US alliance

Scott Morrison says Australia is “keeping a close eye” on a high-tech Chinese surveillance ship that is monitoring war games by Australian and American forces.

Unless its China-trusting chief resigns, the World Health Organisation's pandemic failures will be weaponised by President Trump's assault on global institutions.

"Former prime minister Paul Keating has slammed a media report highlighting a potential invasion by China as the \u201cmost egregious and provocative news presentation of any newspaper\u201d. \n\nThe...

Statistics about international trade in goods, on a balance of payments and international trade basis.

Anthony Albanese has departed Australia for a week of regional and global summitry. There is great interest in whether a formal meeting with China’s Xi Jinping will finally take place or if Australia...

Security experts and the Coalition are urging Labor to follow Washington’s lead and force Chinese-owned platform TikTok to sell or face a ban, as Anthony Albanese declares he has “no plans” to crack...

Former South-east Asian powerbroker Mahathir Mohamad says the AUKUS pact increases the threat of war with China and adds, “every time there is a problem, Australia looks to the west”.

A Labor plan to become “more ­assertive” in protecting the national interest on foreign investment decisions would be truly good news for Australia.

If Scott Morrison wants to know how to handle the crisis with China, he need look no further than how he has dealt with another crisis — coronavirus.

Chanticleer columnist Tony Boyd speaks with Fortescue Metals Group founder and chairman Andrew Forrest at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit.

Australian television journalist and news presenter Cheng Lei, who has been detained in China for more than two years on charges of providing state secrets to foreign organisations, could remain in...

China hawks in Congress had pressed the Biden administration to block Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee from this fall's APEC leaders' summit in San Francisco.

Has the Australian Strategic Policy Institute been pushed off course by the China hawks?

AUKUS will help us with none of the other tools for dealing with Beijing: persuasion, shaping, multilateral advocacy and coalition building.

As the Morrison government attempts a policy of containment against China, it risks the real prospect of war and one of the biggest failures of statecraft in Australia’s history.

Malaysia has urged Australia to do more to allay the concerns of ASEAN nations over the AUKUS security partnership with the UK and the US, and flagged a visit by its defence minister to China to...

Vicky Xu Xiuzhong, who is widely regarded by Chinese netizens as one of the manipulators behind this wave of Western crackdowns over issues related to Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous...

What is the role of Australian media, especially news media, in shaping a sense of who we are as a nation, amidst talk of a Cold War with China? How does the media produce public knowledge about a...

Washington encourages Canberra not to back away from the increasingly adversarial stance it has taken towards Beijing. Yet, nearly 200 days into the Biden administration, there’s still no concrete...

Australia should take notice of the surprise US-China joint announcement on climate change. Whether tokenism or substantial, it sends a message that Beijing and Washington are talking, negotiating...

Singapore has urged Western nations to reflect on their role in the Ukraine war, comparing Australia’s concerns over China’s growing military presence in the Pacific islands with Russia’s long-held...

Chinese state-run media airs the footage just days after the 27-year-old self-proclaimed spy sought asylum in Australia after going public with details of Beijing's espionage efforts.

The ABC and Nine have been accused of failing to restrain their “tabloid instincts” while they launched a concerted effort to convince “small-minded” Australians that billionaire Chau Chak Wing had...

Shanghai-based academic Chen Hong has been a frequent visitor to Australia, with an interest in the country that dates back to his scholarship of Patrick White in the 1980s and has included a role as...

Exploitation, racism, lack of government support and border closures are all contributing to drive international students away — the toll of which could be enormous.

Scott Morrison's thought bubble was a barbecue pleaser. But it was bad strategy that has blown the chances of getting an international investigation and further set back Australia's relationship with...

The Morrison government’s latest stunt of tearing up Victorian government “deals” with China achieved its aims of near-universal positive media coverage.

After five years under the directorship of former Australian foreign minister and former NSW premier Bob Carr, the Australia China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney now has a...

Barnaby Joyce has backed the ­creation of a fleet of Australian-flagged merchant ships as he vowed to use his elevation to Deputy Prime Minister to make the nation more self-reliant, declaring an...

The hostility between the Chinese Communist Party and the Morrison government intensified this week when Canberra joined the US in declaring a diplomatic boycott of next year’s Beijing Winter...

By letting its diplomats criticise governments and threaten companies and people with retribution, Beijing has abandoned the diplomatic practices that propelled its rise to a global power. In the...

Queensland and Western Australia say their ties to China must continue unimpeded to secure billions of dollars’ worth of trade and thousands of jobs, as the resource states’ deals with the Asian...

Major Chinese state-backed investments in Australia face an informal ban after the federal government acted on national security concerns to reject a nearly $300 million acquisition of building...

The increasingly one-sided discourse helps no one

Australia and the US need to maintain a co-ordinated approach as China targets trade, the two top diplomats agreed in what may be their final phone call.

The Ardern government has scrambled to ease concerns about a gap between New Zealand and its other Five Eyes intelligence partners on handling China, as Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne flies...

Beijing has form in using the arrival of a new government as an opportunity to undertake a face-saving adjustment.

Battery chemical giant Albemarle’s problems with its $2.3 billion lithium hydroxide plant in WA will be tackled by an expert team from China.

The Morrison government’s latest stunt of tearing up Victorian government “deals” with China achieved its aims of near-universal positive media coverage.

Nothing could better illustrate what’s wrong with Premier Daniel Andrews’s political culture than his bizarre statement that it was up to Scott Morrison to provide a list of alternative markets and...

A Donald Trump victory would be better for Australia than a Joe Biden presidency. This counter­intuitive view is widely, if semi-­secretly, held in Australian national security circles, and it is...

Australia’s embassy in Beijing is using a Chinese government agency to recruit senior staff into the consulate, with intelligence insiders warning this practice is the equivalent of paying China to...

The world’s “emerging democratic superpower” is how I habitually described India as PM. With the world’s other emerging superpower becoming more belligerent almost by the day, it’s in everyone’s...

As Australia takes the serious step of referring its top trading partner to the World Trade Organization, China watchers wonder whether a truce is now impossible.