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The Chinese economy is no longer growing at a rate of knots. Will the new leadership succeed with economic reform — and what would happen to Australia if they don’t?

Life can be tough being young and wealthy in China — especially if you’re a descendant of Chairman Mao. And with exposure on the country’s new rich lists it’s getting tougher.

Rupert Murdoch has got a pesky lawsuit off his back. And all the latest media news.

North Korea is beating its chest about its nuclear potential. So would the rogue state have the capacity to bomb Australia? Freelance writer David Donaldson asks some big questions.

Julia Gillard is on her second trip to China as PM. There are tentative signs of the relationship improving, but a key topic behind the scenes is how to address Australia’s uncertainty over China. Our correspondent is in Bo’ao.

China’s annual “Parliament” is underway and all eyes are on the country’s two new leaders. Will the new guard shift the focus from internal stability towards economic reform? You might have to wait to find out.

Julia Gillard will take centre stage at a high-profile economic forum in China in two months. The Middle Kingdom may help shape Australia’s election campaign, so the trip is significant.

China’s one child policy has left a nation with far too many men. And yet, writes journalist Kway Teo in Beijing, sons are still more highly cherished than daughters.

A delightful story of the power of social media on Chinese cultural matters that saw this statue removed from a busy intersection in in Urumqi, Xinjiang. But what’s Australia’s ugliest statue?

While Rio Tinto’s executives bask in the friendly climes of London, Perth and Singapore, it’s in Mongolia — one of the unforgiving lands where the it digs up its treasure — Rio has again orchestrated its own crisis.

In an ominous sign of what might be to come from China’s new leadership, ham-fisted censorship of a newspaper editorial has led to a strike, protests on the street and outrage online, writes Beijing-based Kway Teow.

China isn’t getting an NBN, and it doesn’t cost a third of ours, regardless of what The Australian claims.

US authorities have formally accused the major accounting firms’ China branches over their auditing practices. Beijing-based freelancer Kway Teow delves into the murky world of Chinese auditing.

China’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping has taken his first tour. Eschewing pomp, he has recreated a famous tour by a former president. Meet the “secretive seven” who will rule China next year.

Chinese state media has begun popping up in places around the world. William Mackenzie, a foreign journalist working for CRI in Beijing, argues the whole murky apparatus is not just Orwellian but unprecedented.

Why Aussie reporters love the US, but not about China … US papers on today’s vote … Melbourne Cup makes world news, but not in a good way …

Start by having a chat with Andrew Demetriou. So the federal government is expanding its bureaucracy by setting up a new national unit to protect the integrity of sport in an attempt to stamp out match-fixing. Well a good place for the new investigators to start would be at the AFL, the body that institutionalised […]