Bang Xiao

Taipei sits at the physical centre of the global AI economy but remains shut out of the diplomatic rooms where its sovereign rights are negotiated, often by others.

Xi Jinping has learned that every ingredient placed on a state table is a word in a diplomatic sentence.

This week in Beijing, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping quietly admitted something the world has been slow to grasp: neither can afford a collision between their two countries.

Chinese President Xi Jinping praised the building of a "stable relationship" with the US as the two world leaders met in Beijing. Take a look back at the historic state visit. Take a look back at how the day unfolded.

When Trump last visited China in 2017, artificial intelligence was not yet the centre of global power. Now it is. 

When Foreign Minister Penny Wong travels to Japan, China and South Korea this week, she will move through a region where relationships point in different directions at the same time.

It began with a dish once served to Nixon in 1972. Now Beijing is using the same stage to reshape the Taiwan question. China is advancing a slower strategy: using economic incentives and political engagement to influence Taiwan's future.

China is now the world's largest crude oil importer, and Iran — though a discounted and often opaque supplier — remains a consistent part of that supply mix.  

For much of the past century, the world has learned to interpret war through categories shaped by American power.

China's constitution suggests that party institutions elect the top leader. In practice, the process has always been political.

The dispute between HungryPanda and some of its riders has taken another twist, with the food delivery company accusing some workers of intimidation and blackmail.

Delivery riders with food delivery company Hungry Panda are in a dispute over pay and conditions and are planning protests in Sydney.

Riders embroiled in a dispute over pay and conditions with food delivery company HungryPanda in Sydney say Chinese police have asserted pressure back home to stop them protesting.

If migration is treated primarily as a cultural fault line, rather than an economic system embedded in national growth, the debate will remain loud. The structural reform will remain unfinished.

Sixteen months after a stranger poured scalding coffee over a baby in a Brisbane park, China's decision to send a working group to Australia marks the first tangible shift in a complicated case.

Xi Jinping's ambition is to occupy a central position in a reshaped international system, not to lead a permanent grouping of sanctioned or crisis-prone states.

The US has no intention of abandoning Taiwan. But it also has no intention of binding itself to an automatic war commitment on a timeline it does not control.

Disruptions to the world trade system courtesy of Donald Trump and a reshaping of historic alliances as multiple wars drag on have set the stage for a precarious year in global affairs. 

A video circulating on a Chinese social media platform and verified by the ABC has revealed a couple confronting the Bondi Beach shooter.

Recent boat arrivals in Western Australia offer a glimpse into how routes through South-East Asia, particularly Indonesia, are being used to reach Australia.

The blaze that consumed Wang Fuk Court burned for two days, but its political shock waves may echo for weeks, even months.

Hong Kong's worst fire in decades exposed long-standing weaknesses in its aging residential blocks. The question haunting the city is whether the disaster could happen again.

When a fatal fire tore through seven high-rise towers in Hong Kong's Tai Po district, thousands of families were glued to a single webpage that offered updates far more quickly than official government briefings. 

China's escalating confrontation with Japan is colliding directly with its attempt to join one of the world's most demanding trade agreements.

Donald Trump's gains are immediate and personal while Xi Jinping's are quiet, reversible, and strategic