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Lisa Visentin

Lisa Visentin

Lisa Visentin is the North Asia correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in Beijing. She was previously a federal political correspondent based in Canberra.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi with Donald Trump.

Don’t mention the war! Trump drops Pearl Harbour bomb in another excruciating White House moment

Japan’s prime minister was bracing for a difficult meeting with the US president when it took an unexpected diversion back to Japan’s role in World War II.

  • Lisa Visentin

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A ground staff member stands beside a fuel attachment to a Qantas plane at Sydney Airport.

Australia’s jet fuel supply is safe for now, but a price crunch is in the pipeline

China, which is the nation’s biggest supplier of jet fuel, has flagged plans to restrict fuel exports amid disruptions as result from the Iran war.

  • Chris Zappone and Lisa Visentin
US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Trump demand for Beijing’s help with Iran lands flat

The US president threatened to delay his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping unless Beijing helped to police the Strait of Hormuz. His officials soon backtracked.

  • Lisa Visentin
A humanoid robot performs a kung fu kick at the Robot Mall in Beijing.

Robot dogs and humanoid bartenders: In Beijing, the future is now

As China hurries to beat the US in a technological arms race, it is throwing billions at developing machines for everything from warfare to making coffee. But is it too much, too soon?

  • Lisa Visentin
HMAS Toowoomba.

China accuses Australia of ‘distorting facts’ of naval close encounter

China’s defence ministry has accused Australia of distorting the facts on the midair encounter after Australian Defence officials said an Australian MH-60R Seahawk helicopter was forced to dodge a Chinese helicopter in international waters.

  • Rob Harris and Lisa Visentin
The congress, under President Xi Jinping’s watch, has become an even more staged-managed affair than in the past.

China’s latest blueprint aims to close US technology gap and break old habits

President Xi Jinping has put his country on track for its lowest growth target in three decades as he gets ready to welcome Donald Trump later this month.

  • Lisa Visentin
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North Asia correspondent Lisa Visentin has arrived in Beijing, as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age resume

Xi’s China will be world-shaping in the coming months and years. Our return to Beijing could not be more timely or urgent

North Asia correspondent Lisa Visentin has landed in Beijing to cover China, resuming our 50-year history of reporting from inside the country.

  • Lisa Visentin
Singapore’s Tiong Bahru Market – one of the many hawker centres across the island.

Farewell Singapore, ni hao Beijing

As China reopens its doors to Australian journalists, our North Asia correspondent is packing up her apartment in the Little Red Dot and heading for Beijing.

  • Lisa Visentin
Sanae Takaichi places a red rose on the name of one of her winning candidates at the LDP party’s headquarters.

Landslide win for Japan’s fledgling ‘Trump whisperer’ an opportunity for Canberra

The victory vindicates Sanae Takaichi’s decision to take a firm hand with China, which has been increasingly assertive in the Indo-Pacific.

  • Lisa Visentin
Ryan Comas, 46, and his wife Kate have been to Niseko in Japan’s snow country seven times. They are among the thousands of Australian who make the pilgrimage to Japan each year chasing its famous powdery slopes.

‘Everyone’s talking about it’: Aussie deaths ripple through Japan’s snow resorts

Heavy snowstorms have been a boon for Japan’s ski fields, but conditions have turned deadly across the country.

  • Lisa Visentin