Xi Jinping
Opinion
Inside China
China’s $217 billion attempt to stimulate a sluggish economy
China has announced spending that will make its budget deficit the largest in 30 years. It’s the biggest attempt yet to lift a weak growth rate that is threatening Xi Jinping’s long-term ambitions.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Latest
China’s defence minister Li Shangfu ousted after missing for weeks
The latest victim of President Xi Jinping’s high-profile purges becomes the country’s shortest-serving defence minister.
- by Evelyn Yu and Yujing Liu
Analysis
China relations
After ending the freeze with Australia, China fancies joining trade bloc
After three years, all but one of half a dozen exports caught up in $20 billion in trade strikes by the Chinese government have been given an official reprieve.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Australia reaches wine deal with China, PM sets dates for Beijing trip
Australia’s long-running dispute with China on wine tariffs is close to ending ahead of a trip to Beijing by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
- by Shane Wright, Carolyn Webb and Amelia McGuire
1000 nuclear warheads by 2030: China’s arsenal is getting bigger faster, says US
A new report warns that China may be pursuing a new intercontinental missile system using conventional arms that could threaten continental US, Hawaii and Alaska.
- by Tara Copp and Lolita C. Baldor
King crabs and cars: Behind Xi and Putin’s challenge to the West
The city of Vladivostok is at the centre of a blossoming relationship that has overcome decades of mistrust because of a common enemy.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Opinion
Inside China
China may meet its growth targets, thanks to last year’s misery
China’s economy is showing modest momentum, but the baggage it will carry into next year and beyond threatens to thwart its ambition of toppling the US as the world’s largest economy.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
In Beijing, Putin calls for help to fund Arctic shipping route
Putin is asking for multinational investment in his “dear friend” Xi’s Belt and Road project. The route could cut the distance between Asia and Europe in half.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Opinion
Inside China
Another Chinese property giant is teetering on the brink
Country Garden, China’s largest property developer with four times as many projects under way as embattled Evergrande, faces its moment of reckoning this week.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
‘Psychological torture’: The brutal system China uses to make people disappear
The same day that Cheng Lei returned to Australia, the US condemned Beijing for its arrest of another target.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Inside the years of negotiations to secure the release of Cheng Lei
The moment the Australian government knew Cheng Lei was finally free was when she was on the plane from Beijing to Melbourne.
- by Eryk Bagshaw