SSSC Politics China

The results are mixed | Briefing

Australia’s problem with China is bigger and simpler than we think, and thus harder to solve. It isn’t that Beijing doesn’t like Julie Bishop, or that it’s offended by our new political interference legislation, o

The two superpowers, often at loggerheads, have committed to work together on developing carbon capture, energy storage and hydrogen targets.

One man’s appointment might help explain what China is signalling to the world by committing to climate change action - even as it goes on a coal power spree.

Xi Jinping sees the creation of fully domestic supply chains as a matter of national security

China's promises of access to a vaccine for countries like Indonesia and the Philippines offer hope for a way out of the pandemic for those two countries - but there are big risks involved, too.

And a lot is riding on whether Washington can figure out which strategy Beijing has chosen.

Many are forced to work in factories, a new report claims

It would be a bad step for the government to cancel Confucius Institutes. The universities should do it themselves.

China has grand ambitions to break away from its dependency on fossil fuel but the massive shift has been likened to “changing the course of a big ship”.

As China resorts to tariffs and other punitive measures against Australia, we shouldn't enter a tit-for-tat.

A deliberately leaked Chinese government document has laid out 14 disputes aimed at pressuring the Morrison government to reverse Australia’s position on key policies.

There are two schools of thought emerging about what a post-COVID-19 world looks like. One says the balance of global power will be reshaped forever; the other says the challenges present before the crisis will only intensify in the wake of the global pandemic.