Cars are gathered at a port in in Yantai, Shandong province, China, for export.
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Chinese car makers are finding the road to succeeding in the EU slow and bumpy.
People parading a Russian flag around the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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Niger’s military government sides with Russia in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing influence in Africa.
The 2020 #EndSARS protests consolidated young Nigerians’ desire to leave the country.
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There’s more to ‘survival migration’ than an escape from poverty or war: even the middle class can feel they have to leave to survive.
Kanpai! Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is hoping the U.S.-Japan relationship doesn’t lose its fizz.
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Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken and China’s foreign minister Wang Yi in Beijing on April 26.
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China’s need for allies is driven by its worry about neighbouring North Korea and concern about western dominance.
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PNG naturally has its own understanding of history, as well as today’s security environment. But we shouldn’t underestimate the importance of the second world war to the PNG-Australia relationship.
Tiktok is not the only social media app to pose the threats it’s been accused of.
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If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.
Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, arrives in Beijing to meet President Xi on April 15 2024.
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President Xi is looking to play a wider international role, meetings with other national leaders suggest.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, left, shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing in 2023.
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With China increasingly seeking to influence Solomon Islands’ media, Australian news outlets must renew their commitment – and funding – to cover the Pacific.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, meets Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy on June 1, 2023.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz outlined bold, long-term goals: Strengthen the country’s depleted military with extraordinary investments and adopt assertive foreign policy defending global norms.
Up or down?
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A gap has opened up between inflation in the US compared to other regions like Europe and China.
Emergency and security personnel inspect the rubble at the site of an Israeli strike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1.
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Israeli launched a strike against the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1.
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During a state visit to the White House, the US and Japanese leaders announce a suite of new agreements aimed at countering China’s growing power.
Lavrov and Yi meet in Beijing to discuss the ongoing relationship between Russia and China.
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China and Russia have jointly criticised the west, as well as pledging economic and security co-operation.
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From an economic development perspective, the highly skewed nature of AI activity in the US is likely to create large pools of high-skilled workers in some regions while leaving other regions behind.
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AUKUS is still a very new partnership, so expansion isn’t viewed as a priority until the envisioned technology sharing is proven to work.
The rivalry between China and India will be accentuated by a possible return to the White House of Donald Trump.
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India’s Modi may be betting on Trump’s return to the White House to build on their existing relationship.
Biden and Xi’s meeting in San Francisco in 2023 is being seen as a breakthrough in their relationship.
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Washington and Beijing have flashpoints to negotiate, but appear to be choosing to do this through diplomacy, for now.
Chinese universities are prodigious producers of scientific papers, which will help garner them more prestige.
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Science rankings rely on papers in academic journals. Broadening the view to include many more open-access journals will upend the usual order – thanks to China’s vast number of publications.
U.S.-China antagonism is particularly acute in the realm of hacking and cybersecurity.
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Chinese state-sponsored hackers are targeting critical infrastructure. Here’s what they’re doing, how the US government is responding and how you can help.