Taiwan

The new critical minerals prospectus lists resources that are essential to renewable energy developments and other high-tech applications.

Penny Wong says funding development initiatives will strengthen Australia’s credibility and influence in the Pacific region.

Diplomacy and trade are affected by militarised and authoritarian states seeking to alter the balance of power, writes John Blaxland.

Sometimes it takes an elder statesman to let the nation’s digital guardians know where there is still real work to be done.

Penny Wong accepted an invitation to meet her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, to participate in the sixth dialogue for both nations.

Senator Jim Molan has sent Laura Tingle a letter asking the National Press Club to revoke any speaking invitations to Chinese government representatives.

Balancing relations with Taiwan as China ramps up the sabre-rattling will be a touchy foreign policy challenge for the Labor government.

Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has called China’s military exercises around Taiwan ‘disproportionate and destabilising’.

Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan reflects much greater hawkishness on the part of Congress compared with successive US administrations.

The Study Australia Education Exhibition (SAEE) is set to go ahead in September in Taiwan. It will be hosted by Austrade.