China’s Vice-Premier Li Keqiang recent trip down under only serves as a salutary reminder of the increasingly sophisticated yet tough approach by the PRC in its dealings with weaker nation states such as Australia, writes Tony Lamond.
China and Australia
Political snippets: Good news from China, bad news from Copenhagen
Some good news from China on the economy, but some bad news from Copenhagen on the prospect of positive outcomes from the Copenhagen climate change talks. And au revior to the Breakfast Media Wrap.
Stutchbury: Stuff the GFC, pay attention to China
Will a lack of adequate infrastructure slow Australia’s economic growth? Australia needs to embark on a new wave of supply-side reform, one that actually includes cost-benefit analysis, writes Michael Stutchbury.
Coorey: The Rudd government’s quiet achiever
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is one of the success stories of the Rudd government, first carefully manoeuvring China and Australia tensions and now balancing the asylum seeker issue, writes Phillip Coorey.
WesTrac gives Stokes reason to smile
Kerry Stokes’ fortunes are looking up: not in the Australian media, but in his most important business, WesTrac, which is one of the world’s major distributors of Caterpillar products.
Steel the backbone of the economic outlook
Iron ore coking coal and especially steel production figures worldwide are now major indicators for Australia and the national economy’s outlook, especially from China.
China rebound in the bag
The Chinese economy is now doing better than at any time during the past year. Will investors look at how well placed Australia is to benefit from their growth?
How Australia dodged the GFC bullet
Pat on the bank everyone, Australia was the only developed country to miss a technical recession in the GFC. Major shout outs go to China, the banks and our growing population. But will other nations copy our recovery?
Why did BHP and Rio Tinto scrap the WA iron ore joint venture?
Why did BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto scrap their plans to jointly market iron ore from the joint venture between their huge iron ore mines in the Pilbara region? Did negotiations with Chinese mills affect it?
How Australia is complicit in China’s uranium and human rights abuses
Today is the 60th anniversary of China’s one-party communist state — a fitting time to consider Australia’s role in supplying China with uranium and the associated impacts of the nuclear industry, writes James Norman.
Stokes gives China major win in the West
The Huawei deal illustrates why Kerry Stokes is the best-connected Australian businessman in China.
Libs in a twist over China
The Coalition just can’t decide what their stand is on China/Australia relations. The only thing they can agree on: all the diplomatic problems are thanks to PM Kevin Rudd, writes Lenore Taylor.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Nuclear power and relations with China
Crikey readers weigh in on nuclear power, relations with China and the politics between the Greens and the Nationals.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Stephen Smith in top five
The Airlines PNG crash and icy diplomatic conditions with China took Stephen Smith up ten places to a rare appearance in the top five, while Wayne Swan dropped off.
Should Australia appeal for Chinese investors?
An easing of restrictions on foreign investment in Australia by Wayne Swan yesterday does little to change the current issue of Chinese investment in Australia’s rich resources industry.
Chinese cyber terrorism: what it means for Australia
The hacking of the Melbourne International Film Festival website is a form of cyber terrorism and should be of concern to the Chinese government and Australia-China relations, says Catherine A Yeung.
Crikey Says: The Age v China
The Age should move beyond cheap headlines and suggestions of sinister connection to Asians.
Stern Hu and the unpleasant truth about Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a company renowned for playing hard-ball in its commercial operations around the world.
A coming Sino revival?
China’s GDP numbers, while impressive at first glance, are just as much art as science, writes Mark Crosby.
China gives Australia a Stern rebuke
China’s new comments on the Stern Hu case have put Kevin Rudd in a difficult position. He’s now caught between antagonising Australia’s biggest trading partner and appearing too soft at home, write John Garnaut and Michelle Grattan.
Saved! Chinese growth nudges 8%
China’s latest growth figures will be greeted with quiet thanks in Australia where our economic and monetary policy is based to a large degree on a Sino rebound.
China, Australia and Rio Tinto: economic/resource shadow war?
The arrest of ethnic Chinese and Australian citizen executives of Rio Tinto in Shanghai has crystallised the differences in the two countries’ economic culture and political systems, writes Tony Lamond.
Rudd hurting over Rio Tinto fiasco
Why Rudd is now wishing he learnt French at school. Or Latin. Anything but Mandarin.
China, Australia and Rio Tinto: a lose-lose-lose situation
Rudd has returned home with no way to extricate Stern Hu, China is digging it its heels (to its own detriment) and for Rio Tinto, the disaster just keeps on escalating, says Jennifer Hewitt.
