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In this podcast, senior fellow from the Lowy Institute and expert on Asia Richard McGregor joins The Conversation to canvass the prime minister's coming trip to China.
South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin (left) talks to China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, prior to an ASEAN meeting last week.
Mast Irham/Pool/EPA
Beijing has dialled back its aggressive stance and is adopting a more proactive and confident diplomacy to counter US encirclement.
Ju Peng/Xinhua/AP/AAP
A Chinese studies expert analyses Xi Jinping’s 104-minute speech opening the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
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China’s Belt and Road initiative offers advantages and drawbacks for renewable energy development worldwide.
A feeble Theresa May in Kenya.
EPA/Daniel Irungu
The UK’s plans for post-Brexit trade and investment in Africa are pint-sized by the standards of other major players.
El Salvador forges new relationship with China – it isn’t the first nor will it be the last nation to be wooed by Chinese investment.
How Hwee Young/EPA
In the footsteps of US foriegn policy blunders, China is making friends and influencing people in Latin America.
Chinese anti-tank missile vehicles come with human operators – for now.
EPA/Wu Hong
Disruptive technology is fundamentally reshaping global security, and potentially laying the ground for a US-China conflict.
EPA/Korea Summit Press Pool
The astonishing sight of two Korean leaders crossing the border that divides them is just a first step.
This display of Chinese characters represents the Chinese leadership’s ‘Five Major Development Concepts’ ahead of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
Reuters/Thomas Peter
No-one knows quite how things will play out, but most likely Xi will bend the norms of the party to allow him to place enough supporters in key posts without completely upending the system.
Lionsgate
New film has broken China’s box office record while projecting soft power for Beijing.
EPA/Friedemann Vogel
It’s the end of the world (order) as we know it.
A North Korean government picture claiming to show the country’s first successful ICBM test.
EPA/KCNA Handout
Intentionally or not, Trump’s approach to North Korea makes more sense than many people think.
China’s road to global influence runs through Europe.
EPA/Wojciech Pacewicz
European countries are competing against Brussels and each other for China’s affections. And that is undermining the EU.
EPA/Joy Mu
China’s conventional military assets are intimidating enough, but its latest technological advances could transform the military balance in its neighbourhood.
EPA/How Hwee Young
A troublesome ‘little brother’ is exhausting the sympathy on which it heavily relies.
Look out, Guam.
EPA/Andy Wong
The US’s military heft in East Asia may have met its match.
Ready.
EPA/Ng Hong
Beijing has traditionally retained its nuclear weapons on a no-first-use basis, but it’s ready to deploy them more assertively.
The call with Tsai Ing-wen caused a diplomatic furore.
Jorge Adorno/Reuters
‘Little trick’ or ‘petty action’? The difference matters when translating what China really said about Trump’s call with Tsai Ing-wen.