Five months ago, both Defence Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong were emphatic: Australia shared no greater strategic alignment with any country than […]
Rio Tinto and its major Chinese shareholder have jointly acquired control of a low-carbon aluminium business in Brazil for $1.3 billion, in a sign of […]
Australia will donate at least a third of the revenue it would receive from the Greater Sunrise gas development to Timor-Leste as part of a […]
For those with pre-existing ethical or policy reservations about President Donald Trump, the National Defence Strategy adds fuel to the fire. Released last November, the […]
Tokyo | The sudden purge of China’s most senior generals has sparked huge upheaval in the People’s Liberation Army, scrambled Beijing’s military planning and likely […]
Fortescue says relations with China must evolve to offer mutual benefits as the miner buys more Chinese equipment to soothe tensions over iron ore prices […]
Updated Jan 11, 2026 – 1.59pm, first published at Jan 8, 2026 – 1.09pm On the coast of Peru, just north of the capital Lima, […]
BHP will support a $1.69 billion Chinese takeover of mineral explorer SolGold, ending a decade-long battle for control of the Ecuadorian copper and gold discovery. […]
Canberra/Tokyo | Imports from China are surging again as Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs rewire global trade routes and leave Beijing hunting for new customers, with […]
Washington | The US has downgraded its classification of China from authoritarian bully seeking regional domination to a destabilising economic rival that must be stopped […]
