China reacts to US Pacific deal; beyond US-China geopolitics binary logic
The US announced a historic US$810 million-aid package for 14 Pacific nations after a two-day conference in Washington. Post China desk reporter Kawala Xie reports on the reaction from China watchers ...
30 Sep 202236min
Analysing China at the UN: Ukraine, Xinjiang, climate change and a rules-based order
In-depth analysis of the speech by China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the 77th United Nations General Assembly, and China's relationship with the UN, from Professor Rosemary Foot, Senior Research Fel...
27 Sep 202238min
Frosty China-India relations at the UN and BRICS; how Russia is losing Central Asia to China
In a week dominated by the UN General Assembly in New York, Post correspondent Khushboo Razdan analyses the distinct chill between China and India, and the ambiguity both have shown towards Russia ove...
23 Sep 202236min
The politics of Xi meeting Putin; the EU targets China on forced labour, rare earths and influence
Post diplomacy expert Shi Jiangtao pulls apart the language of the Xi-Putin meeting in Uzbekistan and looks at the agendas at play, how they relate to China’s troubled domestic politics and what this ...
16 Sep 202233min
Xi and Putin's gas deal; Xi's multi-nation talks in Uzbekistan; Liz Truss and her China policy
What does it mean for Russia and China to declare they will use the ruble and the yuan instead of US currency for their oil and gas deals? Have Chinese refineries decided they can avoid sanctions and ...
9 Sep 202236min
UN vs China over Xinjiang report; drones over Taiwan; Japan wary of Russia’s Vostok exercise
Post journalists Finbarr Bermingham and Mimi Lau unpack the UN human rights report on conditions in China’s Xinjiang region and subsequent vehement rejection of it by Beijing; Kinling Lo on worries ab...
5 Sep 202242min
Behind the US-Taiwan trade deal; the UK steps up its China policies amid a PM talent show
Post North American bureau chief Rob Delaney looks at two announcements that may feature highly in the US-China political narrative to come. What is the agenda behind a proposed formal trade deal betw...
19 Aug 202236min
Taiwan tension: Beijing’s white paper, Washington’s new Act and Europe’s reactions
Beijing ends its massive military exercises around Taiwan and issues a white paper laying out exactly its ambitions for when it "re-unifies" the self-ruled island with the mainland. The US Congress mo...
12 Aug 202247min
