This Month
- Analysis
- Japan
‘Third World’: Why locals don’t share investor enthusiasm for Japan
Japan is enjoying an investment and tourism boom, but many ordinary Japanese are struggling to make ends meet.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
November
- Opinion
- Opinion
Asia-Pacific tech war is really a subsidies battle
The US pivot towards protectionism and its desire to shift trade to ‘like-minded’ friends raise fears that its market will be closed to Asian exports.
- Mary Lovely
October
Economic ‘giant’ Max Corden dies, aged 96
One of Australia’s most influential economists, he was the intellectual thought leader behind cutting tariff protection in the 1970s and ’80s to help deliver today’s economic prosperity.
- John Kehoe
Treasury Wine investors brace for slow return to China shelves
The potential end of Chinese tariffs on Australian wines is buoying its shares. But a sales recovery to the mainland may take longer than some expect.
- Joshua Peach
- Updated
- Australia's China challenge
Wine tariff deal as Albanese to meet Xi
The prime minister announces deal for a five-month review of trade sanctions and will travel to Beijing and Shanghai between November 4 and 7.
- Andrew Tillett
China has wins on Darwin Port, wind towers ahead of Albanese visit
A Chinese company will not have its lease for Darwin Port cancelled, while tariffs on Chinese-made wind towers will be lifted.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett and Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
China demands steel deal as condition of ending wine tariffs
Ahead of Anthony Albanese’s planned visit to Beijing, Australia is reluctant to accept a deal that would have both sides abandon anti-dumping tariffs.
- Andrew Tillett
China says wine tariff hit could end within weeks
China’s ambassador is optimistic one of the remaining trade disputes could soon be resolved, as Australia renews its offer for a face-saving review.
- Andrew Tillett
September
China lifts hay ban, issues Taiwan warning
China’s ambassador says engagement with Taiwan risks having “negative effects”, even as Beijing lifts barriers on hay sales.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Opinion
APEC can be the hope of the free trade side in Asia
The US and China don’t want to be in the same regional trade grouping. But a free-trade area of the Asia-Pacific offers an inclusive approach that pushes back against the creation of rival trading blocs.
- Craig Emerson
Chinese EVs threaten dominance of European car giants
The popularity of cheaper electric cars from companies such as BYD is becoming a serious problem for the likes of BMW and Volkswagen – and the EU itself.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Europe accuses China of flooding EV market, pledges fight
The EU will probe Beijing’s subsidies to Chinese EV makers, as Brussels tries to shield Europe’s car giants from a potentially existential threat.
- Hans van Leeuwen
US-China decoupling is nascent but real, WTO warns
A major World Trade Organisation review says trade is starting to slow in goods at the heart of US-China tensions – and that extends to their allies as well.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Business chiefs ask Albanese if they can visit China too
Business groups say the prime minister should take a delegation of corporate leaders with him to Beijing later this year when he makes an ice-breaking bilateral trip.
- Andrew Tillett
China plans to broaden iPhone ban to state-run companies
Foreign devices have long been discouraged in sensitive agencies in China but they could soon be banned outright in all government-linked companies.
- Jenny Leonard and Debby Wu
Albanese to meet Xi, ending seven-year China freeze
Anthony Albanese will become the first Australian prime minister to visit China in seven years, in a trip he will use to push for the easing of remaining trade sanctions and the release of two detained dual citizens.
- Phillip Coorey
August
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
Labor considers following US on China tech ban
The White House has broached the ban with Australia, as security hawks urge the Albanese government to impose similar controls on local firms.
- Andrew Tillett
- Analysis
- China relations
Why Australia could follow US on China tech ban
Canberra has an opportunity to adopt investment restrictions on China that are similar to the latest White House moves, to ensure national security.
- Matthew Cranston
Albanese flags Xi meeting ahead of Beijing visit
While relations are improving, Australian winemakers may have to wait until early next year for punitive tariffs to be lifted.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
China could back down on barley tariffs within days
China is facing pressure on multiple fronts to lift punitive tariffs imposed as part of its campaign of economic coercion.
- Andrew Tillett and Michael Smith
