People watch news of missile test on a public TV screen in North Korea.
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North and South Korea explained in four questions and answers.
Kim Jong-un’s rhetoric and action against the US and others is framed domestically as the heroic defiance of an evil enemy.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s rhetoric and actions is brinkmanship, aimed at maintaining his domestic grip on power.
A bus displaying the Pak-China friendship sign, along a road in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Are Chinese lives the price to pay for doing business in Pakistan?
Protests at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, against the US withdrawal from the Paris climate change deal.
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An expert report shows that the G20 countries are using their energy more efficiently. But there is still a long way to go.
LGBTQ Pride in Taiwan.
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Just as Taiwan legalised same sex marriage, China shut down the country’s most iconic lesbian social media platform.
China’s road to global influence runs through Europe.
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European countries are competing against Brussels and each other for China’s affections. And that is undermining the EU.
EPA/Jerome Favre
Beijing’s plans for Hong Kong aren’t going down well with all its post-colonial subjects.
Almost 3000 Australian small to medium enterprises have established businesses in China.
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A new breed of company has appeared as Australian entrepreneurs create successful small businesses in China.
Chinese authorities are cracking down on new media.
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Like regulators elsewhere, Chinese authorities are unlikely to keep up with new forms of online media.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses G20 health ministers in Berlin in May.
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If the G20 is to remain relevant in the quest for more inclusive and fair global governance, Africa offers an historic opportunity for collective action, despite the absence of the US under Trump.
Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington D.C. after President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord.
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Action on climate change is now increasingly in China’s hands, and the decisions the country’s leaders make in the next decade will have a profound global impact.
Do you know who has the rights to access your digital data? And who might be interested in acquiring that information?
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Sooner or later, China will recognise the value of digital assets. This adds to the urgency of citizens ensuring they control the data trails that tell the world what they think and do.
Donald Trump’s poor popularity has affected the level of trust Australians have in the US, but not their level of faith in the alliance.
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Only 20% trust the US ‘a great deal’ to act responsibly. This is a big fall from the 40% level in 2011, when the question was last asked.
The CCP seems intent on bringing Hong Kong into line.
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Twenty years on from the handover of the British Crown colony, the people of Hong Kong are increasingly experiencing the vicissitudes of communism.
‘Entangled’ beams successfully picked up at Earth.
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The ‘entangled’ light particles spookily interact with each other at huge distances.
Sparks fly: workers produce steel at a small plant in Shenyang, northeast China.
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Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
The USS Dewey, a guided-missile destroyer from the US navy, patrolled in the South China Sea on May 24 2017.
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UPDATED Will reports of China’s increased militarisation in the South China Sea upset the delicate waltz between Washington and Beijing?
A student takes a nap on a desk during his lunch break studying for the National College Entrance Exam in Anhui Province, China. June 2, 2012.
Reuters/Jianan Yu
Every year, 9 million students in China compete for just 6 million college admission spots. The systems that match students with schools are being overhauled. But will that improve outcomes?
Unemployment is compounded by the prospect of automation replacing humans in production chains.
Reuters/Bobby Yip
Rethinking work is crucial for industrialised and emerging economies, where job losses are being felt even in the presence of substantial, although diminishing, economic growth.
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The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.