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Washington’s ban on hi-tech exports to China marks a huge gambit for economic supremacy for the next decades

Between China's 20th Communist Party Congress, that began Sunday, and the next one in 2027, Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War Two in a race to deter Beijing from war in East Asia, according to Japanese government officials and security analysts.

States that do not invest in military power would be wise to tool up. And there will be much less room for alliance free-riders – this has obvious implications for Anzac.

Blinken warns China could use ‘coercive’ and ‘forceful’ means to hasten reunification process

This week the Communist Chinese Party is holding a congress at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. The purpose of the congress is to cement Xi Jinping's genocidal, imperialist autocracy. This post explains the centrality of Tiananmen Square to the Chinese dictatorship, and to the Chinese…

Xi Jinping has become China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. NPR has been speaking with a broad range of Chinese people about the impact he has had. Here is what four of them had to say.

Lee Hsien Loong meets with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra for annual talks, where the green economy, national security and the regional response to the ongoing military crackdown in Myanmar were discussed, but not Australia's approach to dealing with Beijing.

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, currently underway in Beijing, is China’s most significant political event in half a decade.

"There has been a change in the approach from Beijing toward Taiwan," Blinken says, days after Xi's speech on self-governing island.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Tuesday there is no consensus yet for China to join a trans-Pacific trade pact, although Singapore believed it would be possible for Beijing to meet the trade bloc's conditions.

Comments by US secretary of state come after Xi told Communist party Congress Taiwan is core to plans for China’s ‘rejuvenation’