Today
Bankruptcy looms for Garuda, international routes no longer feasible
The last remaining commercial flight route operating between Australia and Indonesia is likely to be axed in the coming weeks.
- 31 mins ago
- Emma Connors and Natalia Santi
China coal futures drop on threat of state intervention in crisis
Thermal coal futures trading on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, which have hit record levels in recent weeks, fell the maximum 8 per cent for a second consecutive day on Wednesday.
- Hudson Lockett and Primrose Riordan
Supply disruption to China gives hope to Australian beef exporters
China faces a beef shortage if restrictions remain on imports from Brazil and Argentina – which could be good news for Australian farmers.
- Michael Smith
Couple sail to their wedding in giant cooking pot after floods
Frontline workers Akash and Aishwarya were determined not to let flash floods and landslides in India stop their wedding.
- Jennifer Hassan
Yesterday
N Korea test fires submarine-launched ballistic missile
The launch came as the intelligence chiefs of the United States, South Korea and Japan were to meet in Seoul to discuss the stand-off with North Korea.
- Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin
Neighbourhood spies help police Uighurs in Xinjiang, report finds
A new report focuses on the role of village volunteers who it says are deployed to gather intelligence and granted police-like powers in China’s Xinjiang province.
- Michael Smith
This Month
- Opinion
- GDP
Honeymoon is over for China’s post-pandemic recovery
Growth in China’s industrial and real estate sectors is cooling, meaning long-term pain for Australia’s most valuable exports.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
Japan’s Kishida woos voters with Abenomics critique
Borrowing from the opposition’s policy playbook is a tactic the long-ruling LDP has often used with success.
- Linda Sieg
China yields jump as easing bets fade
The yield on China’s 10-year bond rose as high as 3.02 per cent, crossing the 3 per cent level for the first time since early July.
- Tania Chen
China’s rise prompts NATO to adjust its focus
Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg reveals significant broadening of the Western alliance’s strategic objectives in response to the perceived threat from Beijing.
- Roula Khalaf and Henry Foy
China growth slows as property, energy crises bite
China’s post-pandemic economic recovery has slowed sharply as concern about the Evergrande debt crisis and power shortages grow.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
PNG is back on the brink of a delta variant disaster
Complacency and vaccine hesitancy at all levels of society have left PNG wide open to delta infection. The country needs outside help – and very quickly.
- Jonathan Pryke and Brendan Crabb
China’s Earth-circling hypersonic missile test surprises the US
‘The test showed that China had made astounding progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than US officials realised,’ the Financial Times says.
- Todd Shields
- Opinion
- China
Bond geopolitics cut China from the picture
Hollywood’s attitude toward Chinese power is a useful window into the US’s larger failure to see its great 21st-century rival clearly.
- Ross Douthat
China’s energy crisis threatens long disruption to global supply chain
Buyers in Europe and the US must wait longer for supplies as Chinese factories are forced to slash operating capacity.
- Primrose Riordan, Edward White and Harry Dempsey
- Opinion
- Global economy
Evergrande dilemma has repercussions far beyond China
Beijing could let the property behemoth go bankrupt, but that risks shockwaves at home and abroad.
- Kevin Rudd
China struggles to balance green goals with keeping lights on
The world’s second-largest economy is consuming far more electricity than expected to keep its factories running as businesses rebound from the pandemic.
- Bai Yujie, Luo Guoping, Chen Xuewan and Han Wei
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
AUKUS reaction exposes fault lines in south-east Asia
Unclear strategic narratives around Australia’s new security partnership with the UK and US breed disinformation and fear of the unknown.
- Evan A Laksmana
China doubles down on zero-COVID strategy
As Australia and the rest of the world prepares to open its borders, China is becoming increasingly isolated as it ramps up construction of mass quarantine centres around the country.
- Michael Smith
Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn app in China amid scrutiny
The company says it has faced a ‘significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China’.
- Matt O'Brien
