Australia is simultaneously engaged in confrontation, competition and cooperation with China. This fragile disequilibrium ...

Australia’s fragile bipartisan consensus on China is beginning to fray, but the differences are largely in tone and rhetoric, not substance. As Australia heads toward the 2025 federal election, cost ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House on Monday as the U.S. eyes the continent’s rich rare-earth ...

Attention on China’s 99-year lease over the Port of Darwin re-emerged in the run-up to Australia’s 3 May 2025 federal election. Given the re-elected Labor government’s pledge to reclaim the lease, ...

Australia–China bilateral relations, consolidated by Australian Prime Minister Albanese’s July 2025 visit to China, are as good as they have ever been. While that does not seem to bring much joy to ...

China ready to build more stable, strategic partnership, Li Qiang says Australia concerned about latest South China Sea encounter, Albanese says Albanese says China, Australia are 'friends' BEIJING, ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented on the Trump administration's strategy for the "trade war" with China during an appearance at a CNBC event on Friday. "I think things can de-escalate; we don ...

The work of Australia's defence force to protect its sea trade routes, including through the South China Sea, is becoming more risky as Beijing undertakes the "biggest military build-up in the world ...

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition Australia needs to think seriously about how to persuade those suspicious of immigration that it is an essential tool to bolster the ...

China's ambassador to Australia has hit out at NATO's recent defence spending boost and warned the federal government against following in the footsteps of the powerful military alliance. Xiao Qian ...

(Bloomberg) -- China accused Australia of distorting facts and using inflammatory rhetoric following a mid-air encounter between the nations’ military aircraft and urged Canberra to avoid undermining ...