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    Asia Summit

    The Australian Financial Review Asia Summit will provide fresh perspectives on how Asia is transforming Australia’s future through geopolitical competition, economic growth and technological and social change.

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    Australia’s investment visa requirements are set to be lifted.

    Securing Australia’s Asian destiny

    The Asia Summit provides fresh perspectives on how Asia is transforming Australia’s future through geopolitical competition, economic growth, technological innovation and social change.

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    The Australian Financial Review Asia Summit is a national forum to explore the tensions, trade-offs and synergies between Australia’s effort to advance both its prosperity and its security in the world’s most important region.

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    Chinese electric vehicles face big tariffs in Europe and the US.

    Officials warn US, EU manufacturing boost could hit Australian miners

    China is Australia’s largest buyer of resources, and in the last financial year accounted for $156 billion in sales, to feed its factories and power stations.

    • Elouise Fowler
    Lynas Rare Earths boss Amanda Lacaze.

    Lynas to break China’s heavy rare earths stranglehold

    The Amanda Lacaze-led miner will start producing two critical minerals that are essential to the US and its allies from next year.

    • Brad Thompson
    Austal’s board of directors isn’t playing fair, according to the Hanwha camp,

    Hanwha tussles with Austal board over ‘unfair’ diligence conditions

    Austal’s would-be acquirer reckons that its third indicative bid was at least 15 per cent higher than that of Cerberus Capital Management. 

    • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

    China-linked investor fails in hostile bid for Northern Minerals board

    Wu Tao, who was ordered by the federal government to sell stock in Northern Minerals, fell short in his push to gain a seat on the strategic rare earths miner.

    • Elouise Fowler

    Singapore talks aim to ‘Trump-proof’ new economic deal

    Trade Minister Don Farrell will lead a delegation of top Australian investors to Singapore amid fears over the future of the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.

    • Andrew Tillett
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    June

    Hackers claim to have stolen the emails of Northern Minerals managing director Shane Hartwig. Pictured alongside executive chairman Adam Handley.

    Rare earths miner hacked after Chinese investors ordered out

    A ransomware group has posted CEO emails and sensitive commercial data from miner Northern Minerals on the dark web after Chinese investors were ordered to sell.

    • Paul Smith, Elouise Fowler and Andrew Tillett
    Brisbane is now the second most expensive capital city in the country.

    Migration behind Queensland house price surge: experts

    Brisbane has overtaken Melbourne as the second-most expensive city to buy a house and Queensland is now the ‘epicentre’ of the housing crisis, an academic says

    • James Hall
    Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles (centre) with China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun (right) at the Shangri-La Dialogue.

    Marles delivers right China message in right forum

    The defence minister’s realistic assessment is that Beijing’s aggression is not only a threat but is undermining China’s legitimate self-interests that should be pursued as part of a peaceful and prosperous regional order.

    • The AFR View
    Defence Minister Richard Marles speaks during the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on Saturday.

    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.

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    • David Rising, Jasmine Ng and Haslinda Amin

    May

    Why are we so convinced that acquiring the world’s best submarine capability in an era of heightened global tensions is beyond Australia’s abilities?

    Here are the facts about Australia’s nuclear submarine program

    The frequent negativity among Australian commentators is detached from the reality of the success to date of the plan’s progress, and the wider strategic reasons for the project. Here are the facts.

    • Jennifer Parker
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    Australia’s investment visa requirements are set to be lifted.

    Securing Australia’s Asian destiny

    The Asia Summit provides fresh perspectives on how Asia is transforming Australia’s future through geopolitical competition, economic growth, technological innovation and social change.

    Yuxiao’s Wu Tao (left) signing a co-operation agreement with the leaders of China Northern and Shenghe Resources.

    China-linked entity ousts WA rare earths boss

    Northern Minerals’ new executive chairman said the resignation of Nick Curtis created an “alignment” between shareholders and the board. 

    • Elouise Fowler
    Japan’s sharemarket has hit record highs this year.

    Trillion-dollar fund managers pile money into Asia, emerging markets

    Schroders is bullish on European and Japanese equities, and Blackrock has gone overweight on emerging markets for the first time since 2020.

    • Alex Gluyas
    Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te, centre, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim, right, and former president Tsai Ing-wen wave during Lai’s inauguration ceremonies in Taipei.

    Taiwan’s new president warns China’s threats ‘will not disappear’

    Lai Ching-te will build on his predecessor’s efforts to strengthen ties with the US, which is bound by its own laws to provide the island with the means to defend itself.

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    • Jessica Sier
    A Geely Zeekr 001 EV at the Zeekr Centre in Shanghai. The shift in the US approach towards China from engagement to full-throttle competition is no longer in doubt.

    The US-China trade war has helped polarise ASEAN

    Regardless of their alignment or dependence on one side or the other, South-East Asian states need to stay focused on their common regional interests.

    • Joseph C. Liow

    Lendlease sells down Asia venture amid campaign for overhaul

    The $147 million sale of a stake in its life sciences business comes as activist investors demand the property giant pulls back from overseas markets.

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    • Nick Lenaghan
    Douglas Hsu.

    Meet Taiwan’s ‘matchmaker’ for Australian business

    As Taiwan prepares to welcome a new president and bolster economic ties with Australia, the self-ruled island’s envoy issues a warning over Chinese coercion.

    • Andrew Tillett
    The sun sets on hopes for BHP’s Nickel West Kalgoorlie smelter.

    Albanese’s troubled critical minerals dream

    The Albanese government has high hopes for much more downstream processing of critical minerals. But the numbers aren’t adding up. What can change that?

    • Jennifer Hewett
    Investors are starting to doubt the strength of the US economy and its sharemarket.

    Investors pull money from Wall Street in favour of Asia, Europe

    Fund managers are reallocating money away from Wall Street betting that ‘US exceptionalism’ has run its course.

    • Ishika Mookerjee, Charlotte Yang and Sagarika Jaisinghani
    Austal chief executive Paddy Gregg with the USS Canberra at Sydney harbour.

    Backers of takeover target Austal want Hanwha in the race

    Austal shareholders say the opening shots in takeover battle for the defence ship builder have fallen well short of the mark, but granting due diligence would be a start.

    • Brad Thompson
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    Chinese investment critical to reach net-zero goals

    Clean energy experts warn moves that limit Chinese investment in Australia could undermine the Albanese government’s green energy goals.

    • Ronald Mizen, Elouise Fowler, Simon Evans and Ben Potter
    Prime ministers Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi have forged a strong bond.

    Wong warns on foreign interference after Indian spies expelled

    Revelations Indian spies were asked to leave Australia in 2020 suggest Western intelligence agencies are unhappy about New Delhi’s espionage tactics.

    • Andrew Tillett and Emma Connors
    Jim Chalmers at the Lowy Institute in Sydney on Wednesday.

    Chalmers’ recipe for friendly foreign investment ignores the basics

    The treasurer has a grand new take on industrial policy, but there’s little evidence of the reforms that international investors seek.

    • Jennifer Hewett

    ‘No concerns’ with South Korean takeover bid for Austal: Marles

    Defence Minister Richard Marles has given a fillip to Hanwha’s bid to buy Perth shipbuilder Austal, despite the deal raising security concerns.

    • Andrew Tillett and Brad Thompson

    April

    The Future made in Australia Act draws a line between nostalgists and strategists, Jim Chalmers says.

    Labor’s plan to unlock the right foreign investment

    While some investors will get a fast track, extra safeguards will be set up for high-risk proposals, like China entities investing in critical infrastructure.

    • Phillip Coorey