Australia is now more dependent on a single market than it has ever been since the late 1940s when our biggest customer was the United Kingdom.

“The Chinese government firmly opposes any form of illegal migration,” she added. This comes after US President Donald Trump threatened to hit Colombia with tariffs of up to 50% as the latter refused to take back deported migrants.

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The prime minister’s bumbling answer to a press club question on Australia’s engagement in the AI arms race shows how complacent political and business leaders are.

Architects of the trilateral defence agreement said Australia should be the “beachhead” to counter Chinese aggression and the AUKUS deal was keeping Xi Jinping awake at night.

On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as the Quad: the United States plus India, Japan and Australia, representing nearly 2 billion people and more than a third of global GDP.

Australians must be braced for uncertainty, an academic warns, as Donald Trump becomes the leader of the free world for a second time.

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The top diplomats of China and India have called for their nations to provide further mutual support, but avoided making any public statements about a long-standing border dispute when they met Monday in Beijing.

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