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Iran may be using China’s advanced satellite system, ambassador concedes
Ambassador Xiao Qian said Iran could be using Beijing’s BeiDou system to target US and Israeli military assets in the Middle East, but his country was not directly involved.
- Amelia Adams and Anne Worthington
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- Opinion
- Inside China
China’s latest plan to dominate global trade
China’s latest five-year plan seeks to cement its grip on artificial intelligence and other high-tech sectors and expand exports that are already destabilising other economies.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
Lisa Visentin reports from National People's Congress
China has set its lowest growth target in decades at the National People’s Congress in Beijing.
- Analysis
- China relations
Why Trump’s ‘faux pas’ on Taiwan is ringing alarm bells in Washington
The president indicated he was consulting Chinese President Xi Jinping about US arms sales to Taiwan, prompting accusations he had broken with prior US commitments – if not by letter, then by spirit.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- China relations
What China’s kill line obsession exposes about its own anxieties
The Chinese tell themselves stories of American decline to feel better. But they hide some essential truths.
- Lisa Visentin
‘Xi trusts nobody’: Purge of China’s military claims its top general
The ousting of General Zhang Youxia marks a dramatic escalation in President Xi Jinping’s sweeping purge of military officials and a consolidation of his power over the army.
- Lisa Visentin
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- Courts
HK media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted under Beijing-imposed national security law
The 78-year-old, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a vocal democracy campaigner, faces potential life imprisonment.
- Lisa Visentin
The married scientists torn apart by a COVID bioweapon theory
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the US, aided by allies of Donald Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of COVID-19. Her husband still can’t find her.
- Katie J.M. Baker
Detained in China, Cheng Lei missed ‘being a human’. One defiant act helped her survive
The Australian journalist and author, who was incarcerated in Beijing in 2020 for three years, on enduring prison, embracing life – and keeping perspective.
- Benjamin Law
US allies that don’t step up ‘will face consequences’, Hegseth warns on eve of Ausmin
At a major defence conference, civilian and military officials also spoke of the ongoing difficulty in building more nuclear-powered submarines, which Australia will depend on under the AUKUS agreement.
- Michael Koziol