Today
Modi’s alliance to win big in India election, exit polls project
Most exit polls projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win a two-thirds majority in the 543-member lower house of parliament.
- YP Rajesh, Sakshi Dayal and Tanvi Mehta
- Opinion
- India
Modi’s authoritarianism will make relations with India harder to handle
It would be a tragedy and have adverse implications for the West if India’s struggle for internal harmony were to founder on the rocks of majoritarian elective autocracy.
- John McCarthy
Yesterday
Australia has ‘security anxieties’ with China even as ties warm
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has called on Beijing to uphold the global rules-based order.
- Updated
- David Rising, Jasmine Ng and Haslinda Amin
May
China’s army tests gun-toting robot dog
The new military tech was made by a start-up with funding from major venture capital firms.
- Ryan McMorrow
How Taiwan’s trusty ‘silicon shield’ became its achilles heel
For years the island democracy depended on its outsized semiconductor industry to protect it from China’s advances. But huge success comes at a price.
- Jessica Sier
Google to invest $3b in Malaysian data centre and cloud hub
The news follows Microsoft’s announcement that it would put $US2.2 billion into Malaysia’s new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
- Ram Anand
Australian among 14 convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest security case
A Hong Kong court has found the pro-democracy activists guilty in a national security case that has effectively wiped out the city’s political opposition.
- Jessie Pang and James Pomfret
IMF lifts China growth forecast but warns on trade war
The International Monetary Fund said it was raising its forecast for the country’s gross domestic product growth in 2024 to 5 per cent from 4.6 per cent.
- Haslinda Amin
Key clients desert PwC China as big four rivals circle
The accounting firm is under a cloud over audits of the distressed property developer Evergrande, and it faces severe penalties.
- Cheng Leng and Chan Ho-him
US legislator tells Taiwan its weapons are coming
The island nation has complained for two years of delays in deliveries of US weapons, as manufacturers supply Ukraine to support its defence against Russia.
- Ben Blanchard
China’s industrial profits return to growth
A global cyclical boom in technology products like chips as well as a push by the government to get firms to replace their old equipment supported the April upturn.
- Gao Yuan
China hails ‘new beginning’ with US-allied South Korea, Japan
China, South Korea and Japan are trying to manage mutual distrust amid the rivalry between Beijing and Washington, and tensions over Taiwan.
- Hyonhee Shin
China’s online ‘Kim Kardashian’ banned for being too ostentatious
The online disappearance last week of Wang Hongquanxing is part of the government’s latest campaign to maintain its dominance over China’s social media culture.
- Joe Leahy and Wenjie Ding
China in high-stakes summit with Japan, South Korea
China and its US-allied neighbours are important trading partners to one another, and their cooperation is key to promoting regional peace and prosperity.
- Soo-Hyang Choi and Yoshiaki Nohara
- Opinion
- East Asia Forum
US, China protectionism race benefits no one
To counter competition from China, the United States is becoming more like China, and Australia and other nations have joined the game.
- Shiro Armstrong
Ray Dalio joins billionaires snapping up historic Singapore houses
The Bridgewater Associates founder’s family office has bought two heritage ‘shophouse’ properties for about $28.6 million
- Mercedes Ruehl
China steps up war games around Taiwan to ‘seize power’
Beijing’s military released a video of missiles being launched at Taiwan from the ground, air and sea, which then slam into the island’s cities in balls of flame.
- Bernard Orr and Ben Blanchard
China’s curse is to raise hopes and dash them
In her book “Wild Ride”, an American journalist details her life in China as it opened to the world, then regressed back to an oppressive, inward-looking regime.
- Anne Stevenson-Yang
- Analysis
- China relations
More China ‘punishment’, but Taiwanese have seen it all before
In the streets of Taipei, people appeared sanguine as they went about their daily lives, as China conducted military drills.
- Updated
- Jessica Sier
PwC braces for China crisis and a hefty fine
PwC’s role in approving accounts for troubled property developer Evergrande has led to infighting at the big four firm as clients reconsider their relationship.
- Stephen Foley, Sun Yu and Cheng Leng
