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A new chapter: how China sees Albanese’s ‘ice-breaking’ state visit

Chinese state media have previously viewed Australia’s actions as blindly following the US. Does a resumption of dialogue signal a change?

The Guardian - AU

China unveils Taiwan economic ‘integration’ plan as warships conduct manoeuvres off coast

Measures include making it easier for Taiwanese people to live and work in China, but the plan comes amid major military exercises

The Guardian - AU

Two people arrested in China for smashing a hole in the Great Wall

Suspects widened a gap in the Great Wall to shorten travel time to a worksite in Shanxi province, state media says.

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Chinese construction workers accused of plowing a hole through the Great Wall

The pair, who were working on a local construction project, drove an excavator through a portion of the wall. They have been charged with destroying a cultural relic, China Daily reported.

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Trade War Heats Up With China's Export Restrictions on Two Critical Minerals

China and the U.S. are locked in a mutually destructive economic conflict.

Reason

Complete Bronze Age town with elite tombs discovered in northern China

The site is one of the largest ever discovered dating from China's early Shang Dynasty.

LiveScience

World’s first all-white giant panda captured in video

Officials determined that the giant panda was an albino since it has red eyes and no spots. It’s believed to be the only one of its kind.

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Australia’s trade minister hopeful China bans will end but warns against putting ‘all our eggs in one basket’

Don Farrell has dismissed talk of any Australian policy shift after breakthrough reached on barley exports

The Guardian - AU

China Is Tweaking Its Propaganda for African Audiences

A concerted media campaign has not done much for Beijing’s image.

Foreign Policy

China says will train foreign astronauts for space station

China says it will soon begin training foreign astronauts for trips to its newly completed orbiting space station

The Independent UK

China's domestic tourism expected to fully recover in summer

BEIJING: A full recovery of China's domestic tourism market is expected during the summer holidays this year, as the market has been building momentum since the country optimized its COVID-19 response in January, according to a report on the website of China Daily.

Bangkok Post

COVID pressures China's hospitals as countries mandate tests for travellers

Chinese hospitals and funeral homes were under intense pressure on Wednesday as a surging COVID-19 wave drained resources, while the scale of the outbreak and doubts over official data prompted some countries to enact new travel rules on Chinese visitors.

Reuters

Foreign Minister Penny Wong raises human rights and trade in Beijing, while seeking 'structured dialogue' with China

The foreign minister says Australia is seeking to stabilise relations with China, but also raises trade "blockages" and human rights at talks during the first official visit to Beijing by a minister since 2019.

ABC News

'Ice thaws' as Wong lands for China talks

"The ice thaws but slowly," says Foreign Minister Penny Wong as she prepares to break a four-year diplomatic freeze with her Chinese counterpart in Beijing.

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The Guardian - AU

‘Starting to warm up’: Chinese state media welcomes Wong visit after Coalition’s ‘stupid’ policies

Foreign minister says in Beijing she will press for detained Australians Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun ‘to be reunited with their families’

Reuters

In COVID-hit Beijing, funeral homes and crematoriums are busy

Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday while workers at the city's dozen funeral homes were busier than normal, days after China reversed tight pandemic restrictions.

Reuters

Chinese leaders vow to prop up COVID-battered economy as virus spreads

President Xi Jinping and his senior officials pledged to shore up China's battered economy next year as the deaths of two veteran state journalists highlighted the worsening spread of COVID-19 in the capital Beijing.

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Beijing Drops COVID Testing Burden with Wider Easing Eyed

People in China's capital Beijing on Tuesday were allowed to enter supermarkets, offices and airports without having to show negative COVID tests, the latest in a mix of easing steps nationwide after last month's historic protests. "Beijing readies itself for life again" read a headline in the government-owned China Daily…

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The Guardian - AU

How Chinese media have – and haven’t – covered widespread protests against zero-Covid

State-run media outlets largely ignore nationwide protests, but continue to push the importance of Covid restrictions

Reuters

China posts 6-month high COVID count as it sticks with strategy

China on Sunday reported its highest number of new COVID-19 infections in six months, a day after health officials said they were sticking with strict coronavirus curbs, likely disappointing recent investor hopes for an easing.

Reuters

Beijing party chief Cai, Xi loyalist, vaults to top rank

Cai Qi catapulted to the top rung of China's leadership on Sunday, capping a late career rise that overcame a less than ideal stretch as Beijing's Communist Party boss.

Reuters

Thousands evacuated in SW China as quake toll rises to 66

Chinese firefighters worked in treacherous terrain on Tuesday to help evacuate more than 11,000 people after a magnitude-6.8 quake struck China's mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan a day earlier, killing at least 66 people.

Reuters

China hosts political dialogue with Pacific on same day as regional leaders meet

China hosted a separate political dialogue with Pacific island countries on the same day Pacific Island Forum leaders met and agreed to resolve security issues within "the family", highlighting rising geopolitical competition in the region.

The Guardian - AU

Australia ‘doesn’t respond to demands’, Anthony Albanese tells China

PM reacts to Beijing’s four-point advice on improving relations following high-level G20 meeting between the two countries

ABC News

China Daily editorial slams Anthony Albanese over Ukraine war comments hinting at Taiwan

Chinese state media hits back at the the Prime Minister's comments, declaring the chances of Australian-Chinese ties being reset are rapidly diminishing.

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