Today
Chinese state media reacts to Biden victory with cautious optimism
The immediate reaction to Joe Biden's victory Sunday was measured, indicating that China was willing to attempt, and indeed was eager for, a thaw.
- Vivian Wang
China adviser urges Morrison olive branch to halt trade war
An adviser to China's Commerce Ministry says there are things the Morrison government can do to salvage Australia's most important trade relationship.
- Michael Smith
Yesterday
Bollywood fights back against prime time slurs
Finding themselves at the centre of a media trial, Bollywood stars say the TV channels' coverage is defamatory and have asked the court to block such reporting.
- Niha Masih
Myanmar's Suu Kyi favoured to win as election gets under way
The National League for Democracy is expected to win a second term in the second general election since the end of decades of military-backed rule.
- Thu Thu Aung and Zaw Naing Oo
This Month
Australian exporters brace for China ban, eye new markets
Two traders in Shanghai said they were told by Customs officials that their orders for Australian wine and other goods would not be cleared.
- Michael Smith and Brad Thompson
Why this man left Goldman Sachs to head a business in Myanmar
Here's how Melvyn Pun's investment strategy has reaped profits from 'one of the fastest growing countries in the world'.
- Michael O'Neill
China calls on next US president to reboot relations
Beijing's leaders say the US presidential election offers the chance to reset 'increasingly antagonistic relations' between the world's two superpowers.
- Michael Smith
Would-be Ant investors demand refund
Some of the more than 10 million retail investors who subscribed to five funds planning to invest in the share sale have demanded their money back.
- Yue Yue and Denise Jia
Chinese state media acknowledges ban on seven Australian exports
Despite Chinese government denials, a state-run tabloid newspaper has acknowledged bans on seven Australian exports into China.
- Michael Smith
China rejoices in a divided America
With both Trump and Biden expected to maintain a tough line on China, a divided America is the best result the country's Communist leaders could have hoped for.
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- Jack Ma
Communist China shows capitalist Ma who's boss
China has shot itself in the foot by suspending the world's biggest IPO at a time when it wants more foreign investors to park their capital in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
- Michael Smith
China halts world's biggest IPO, questions Jack Ma
China shocked global financial markets by halting the world's biggest IPO and calling in Alibaba founder Jack Ma for questioning by financial regulators.
- Michael Smith
Ant squashed by Beijing behemoth
Jack Ma has had ample reminders that in China, no one is bigger than the Communist Party. But the shoot-from-the-hip tycoon ignored these – and has jeopardised the world’s biggest IPO and a multibillion-dollar personal windfall.
- The Lex Column
- Opinion
- Billionaires
It's Bezos versus Ambani in the battle for India's riches
Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani are fighting over pole position in the only billion-plus-people consumer market available to both of them.
- Andy Mukherjee
China targets $6b of Australian exports in fresh campaign
Exporters fear sugar and copper have been added to a growing list of commodities being targeted by China as it steps up its campaign of economic coercion.
- Updated
- Michael Smith, Angus Grigg, Brad Thompson and Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- China relations
A distracted America may be Asia's lot for some time
Biden will work with allies, and a re-elected Trump will work against them. But it will take more than one election to settle America's deep domestic divisions.
- Sheila A Smith
Duterte inspects typhoon damage as death toll rises to 16
The Philippine President was due to inspect areas hit by Typhoon Goni, as authorities claimed mandatory evacuations had prevented a higher death toll.
- Neil Jerome Morales
- Analysis
- Trump diplomacy
How Trump's 'friendship' with Xi turned sour
From state dinners to an entrenched and destructive trade war, the relationship between arguably the two most powerful people in the world has deteriorated quickly.
- Michael Smith
October
- Opinion
- China relations
Xi Jinping speeds China's ascent
China's leader is driving his country to match a declining America by 2035. That is only four or five Australian elections away.
- Richard McGregor
China seeks technology self-reliance in five-year economic plan
China's new five-year plan was heavy on rhetoric and light on detail but it has pledged to become self-reliant on technology in the face of US sanctions.
- Michael Smith
