Belt and Road
Planes, ports and satellites - rejected by US, Pakistan cosies up to China
With its plan for Pakistan, China is for the first time explicitly tying a Belt and Road proposal to its military ambitions.
- by Maria Abi-Habib
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea rejects US criticisms of Chinese 'Belt and Road'
PNG’s Foreign Minister has rejected the US assessment that Chinese development money is “a constricting belt” and a “one-way road” for poor nations.
- by David Wroe
Victorian election
Morrison's China row with Andrews widens as PM passes on policing tips
Political tit-for-tat between Canberra and Victoria over secret trade deal with China has spread to criticism of Labor's handling of crime in Melbourne.
Victorian election
Andrews, Morrison at odds over Victoria's secret Chinese trade deal
Victorian Premier defends his government’s decision to sign agreement with Beijing to enhance investment, saying such agreements were always done that way.
- by Benjamin Preiss & Kirsty Needham
China
China’s 'extraordinary' ambitions: the futuristic city being built on reclaimed land
A new project in Sri Lanka has been likened to a Chinese company building a huge island off Bondi Beach and then putting a new city on it.
- by Matt Wade
Kenya
‘How can you call us monkeys?' Kenyans say Chinese bring racism
Before last year, Richard Ochieng', 26, could not recall experiencing racism firsthand. Then he started working for a Chinese company.
- by Joseph Goldstein
China
A decades-coming bridge to unite Croatia is finally going to be built ... by China
With drills churning and its engineers arriving daily, a state-owned Chinese construction firm is finally going to complete a project Croatia has struggled with for decades.
- by Marc Santora and Barbara Surk
Belt and Road
China waives debt, promises 'no imposition of will' on African nations
The $US60 billion debt waiver is intended to convince the world that its Belt and Road infrastructure initiative is creating debt traps in poor countries.
- by Kirsty Needham
China
China denies setting up military base in Afghanistan
China is reported to be building military base in Afghanistan, with hundreds of troops to cross the border from its western Xinjiang region.
- by Michael Martina & Ben Farmer
Malaysia
Malaysia cancels Belt and Road projects with China over bankruptcy fears
The statement came after Malaysia PM Mahathir Mohamad called for "fair trade" and warned against a new version of colonialism.
- by Kirsty Needham
Mahatir Mohamad
Malaysia's Mahathir aims to scrap multi-billion dollar China deals
The Prime Minister insists he wants to maintain good relations with China but wants to focus on debt reduction before building massive infrastructure projects.
- by Adam Schreck