Australia's defence force operations to protect its sea trade routes, including through the South China Sea, are becoming more risky as Beijing undertakes the "biggest military build-up in the world today",

In diplomacy, even short words matter. And with a brief Truth Social post, President Donald Trump may have revealed his approach to the U.S.-China relationship — to the delight of reputation-conscious Beijing but to the worries of U.

Both sides of the Taiwan Strait are girding for would be the most difficult seaborne invasion since World War II.

China's factory activity in October expanded at a slower pace as new orders and output both waned amid tariff anxiety, a private-sector survey showed on Monday.

At a conclave of the Communist Party’s most senior officials that ended on October 23rd he warned that over the next five years the task of ensuring China’s development while maintaining its security would become “much harder” amid a “notable rise in uncertainties and unforeseen factors”.

Trump has said the U.S. will restart nuclear weapons testing, and accused other powers of doing the same already.

China's Sinopec , the world's biggest refiner by capacity, signed an agreement with South Korea's LG Chem on Tuesday to jointly develop sodium-ion battery materials, in its first push into new energy and higher-value petrochemicals.