Chinese propaganda arms are offering tempting commercial arrangements.
Reuters/Damir Sagolj
There has been an odd silence around commercial deals struck between Australian media outlets and China’s propaganda arms.
Indian children overlook the dry Tawi river, in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India.
EPA/Jaipal Singh
Ambitious plans to divert rivers are all very well, but what is needed is to manage water sources at the local level.
Sorry, but the glass is half empty.
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GDP growth that doesn’t translate into income is no cause for celebration.
BRICS leaders at a meeting ahead of the G20 summit in Turkey in 2015.
REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin
The BRICS bank is positioning itself to play a significant role in those areas in which the international financial institutions are seen to have failed.
‘If Steve McQueen can do it …“
Gabriele Maltini
Conservative MP David Davies has been telling anti-TTIP activists that a leave vote is how they can torpedo the deal.
Purportedly Chinese dredging vessels are building up land around Fiery Cross Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea last year.
U.S. Navy via Reuters
The Philippines is cheering a ruling that China’s vast territorial claims in the South China Sea have no legal basis. But the ruling will also ratchet up military tensions with the U.S.
Heading in the opposite direction?
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Sino-Japanese rivalry might well come to dominate this year’s G7 and G20.
Paying respects in Mao’s home town.
EPA/How Hwee Young
Five decades ago, China began a decade of devastating crackdowns and purges – and the causes are still poorly understood.
On their knees. Scrutiny and stigma for athletes has ramped up.
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The history of the fight against drug taking in sport shows us why we’re in such a mess right now.
Love and affection are as important as food, water and shelter.
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Children raised in orphanages often lack a key ingredient for healthy development – love.
Michael Reynolds / EPA
As grassland turns to desert, dust is blown into the atmosphere and across oceans.
Reuters/Kim Kyung Hoon
Fifty years ago on May 16 the Cultural Revolution began. Don’t expect this event to be given much attention in China itself, though. The reality is that despite Mao Zedong’s continuing iconic status, his…
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New research questions whether claims of a ‘national sex revolution’ in China are actually nothing of the sort.
Australian and New Zealand dairy farmers need to get used to the low prices for milk as they represent the new norm in global markets.
Dan Peled/AAP
Cooperatives like Murray Goulburn and Fonterra and dairy farmers need to accept that lower milk prices will be the new normal in a more competitive global market.
Is the ‘golden relationship’ already on the rocks?
Dominic Lipinski / PA Wire/Press Association Images
Is being rude to overseas visitors an attempt to hold on to the pride that comes with power?
A fine line: the China-North Korea border.
Prince Roy via Wikimedia Commons
China’s unpredictable neighbour is a massive liability – and one to be handled with kid gloves.
Choosing the right tactics?
EPA/MARK
Xi Jinping is spearheading an extraordinary bid to dominate the world’s favourite sport. But will he take the Chinese people with him?
Aurelien Guichard
The influence of London’s Chinatown is declining, but Chinese wealth is bringing far greater change to the city’s modern skyline.
Round ‘em up.
EPA/Ned Redway
Washington has been trying to corral the ASEAN countries into a unified bloc against China – but it could actually destabilise the region further.
Drolexandre
China’s recent splurge on corporate acquisitions has demonstrated an ability to create value that outstrips its western rivals.