China relations
Chinese fishing fleet off Peru stirs up diplomatic waters
More than 250 ships were previously catching giant squid near the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador.
- by Marco Aquino
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CCP
Inside the global alliance attempting to stifle China
The medieval church cloisters in the small Dutch city of Maastricht are an unlikely setting for Chinese Communist Party influence.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Advocatus Diaboli
Olympics
Beijing won't lose 2022 Games, but China never should have won rights
There’s a core rottenness in the way the Chinese state treats its people, entirely in breach of the utopian ideals of the Olympic Charter.
- by Darren Kane
CCP
Beijing bans Australian researchers in tit-for-tat
Clive Hamilton and Alex Joske have been banned from entering China after it was revealed Australia had revoked the visas of two Chinese academics.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Human rights
New images reveal China's growing detention centre network
Beijing claims all detainees have “graduated” from re-education camps. The images tell a different story.
- by Eryk Bagshaw and Anthony Galloway
Exclusive
Kimberley Kitching
China, UN blasted by Labor senator over coronavirus response, view on Israel
Kimberley Kitching has accused China of "neo-Stalinist domestic policies" and displaying "belligerent and hegemonic behaviour in the international arena".
- by Anthony Galloway
Hong Kong
China dismisses concerns over human rights abuses tarnishing Winter Olympics
China's Foreign Ministry says many countries approve of its actions, rejecting calls that it should be stripped of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Exclusive
Winter Olympics
Global push to strip Beijing of Winter Olympics
The founder of a global coalition of MPs is pushing for the International Olympic Committee to reconsider Beijing's hosting of the 2022 Winter Games.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
China
Beijing vows to protect Chinese firms after Trump's TikTok ban
The US issued a ban on TikTok and WeChat on Friday, citing national security concerns. China replied with a vow to take "necessary measures" to protect its interests.
- by Bloomberg News
Social media
Trump to block TikTok, WeChat downloads in US, officials say
The Trump administration will ban WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok from US app stores starting on Sunday night.
- by David Shepardson, Echo Wang and Alexandra Alper
Perspective
Prisons
Francis James: the merry prankster who tarried too long in China
Long before two Australian journalists managed to flee from China this year, Francis James spent three years in China's secret prisons.
- by Tony Wright