Representatives from the Western Australian government and fellow guests attended a reception in Perth on Jan 25 to celebrate Spring Festival.

Beijing’s state media recently published an article drawing attention to Washington’s apparent plans to use Australia as a “beachhead” for the looming Indo-Pacific war. Besides missing the strategic context of Australia’s thinking post-World War II,

Architects of the trilateral defence agreement said Australia should be the “beachhead” to counter Chinese aggression and the AUKUS deal was keeping Xi Jinping awake at night.

The United States, Australia, India and Japan recommitted to working together on Tuesday, after the first meeting of the China-focused "Quad" grouping's top diplomats since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as the Quad: the United States plus India, Japan and Australia, representing nearly 2 billion people and more than a third of global GDP.

Two years after the WTA boycotted playing events in China fearing for the safety of a star player, a major event has been moved there.

China’s relations aren’t improving with every U.S. partner. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has aggressively resisted China’s increasingly assertive stance in their territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Products made with forced labour of ethnic minorities in China are being imported into Australia despite the US banning the offending companies.

China has a chokehold on the world’s supply of critical minerals – and experts are warning the situation is major risk to US national security if the government doesn’t step up its efforts to

Range-extender electric vehicles have been few and far between in Australia, but Leapmotor is planning to change this.

China's imports of major commodities in 2024 presented a mixed bag, with record volumes of iron ore, coal and natural gas, but weakness in crude oil.

Australia has a new framework for dealing with high-risk technology vendors, though the government isn’t brave enough to call them that. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says the framework ‘will ensure the government strikes the