A proposed US levy on all Chinese ships would hurt trans-Pacific trade, Shipping Australia says. Photo: freepik An American proposal to impose up to $3m in levies on all Chinese-owned and made ships docking in US ports is a threat to Australian exports. That is the position of Shipping Australia, who are among US and…
Australian exporters will need to show greater flexibility, says NSW academic Maggie Dong. Photo: UNSW Australia is facing an increasingly fraught trading tightrope walking act between a swinging rock and a hard place, says a University of NSW business marketing academic. Professor Maggie Dong is head of the School of Marketing at UNSW Business School. In…
FLASHBACK …. Six foreign warships berthed at HMAS Coonawarra, Darwin, as part of Exercise Kakadu 2024. Photo: Department of Defence The Northern Territory Government will send a team to Canberra later this week to discuss returning Darwin Port to full Australian ownership. NT Infrastructure Minister Bill Yan says his government had taken heart from the…
Kiwi naval ship Aotearoa resupplies the Te Kaha as they continue to monitor the Chinese ships off Tasmania. Photo: NZDF A Chinese naval task group is moving into the Great Australian Bight west of Tasmania as a political row over the warning of live-fire drills continues. And the row is dragging in New Zealand even…
Chinese spending on R&D went from 4 per cent of the global total in 2000 to 26 per cent in 2023. Photos: stock China is driving an upsurge in global spending on research and development (R&D) as the world total nearly tripled to US$2.75 trillion in 2023. The UN World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) recently…
NATO ships trained with two Japanese naval ships in the Eastern Mediterranean last August. Photo: NATO China and North Korea’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine has prompted NATO to meet with Korean and Japanese officials. NATO Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Boris Ruge, met last week with senior officials in Seoul…
Local firefighters rescue trapped residents in Tibet. Picture: UN / China Fire Services At least 126 people were killed and 188 injured in a 7.1-magnitude quake that struck in a remote region near Mount Everest, Tibet. Tremors were reportedly felt in Nepal, Bhutan and parts of northern India. United Nations spokeswoman Stephane Dujarric said that…
Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele (front, centre) during a visit to Brisbane in June. Photo: Reginald Ramos/DFAT. Australia has agreed to a $190m four-year deal to boost Solomon Islands Police to reduce the Pacific Island nation’s dependency on China. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the deal includes a new police training centre in Honiara as…
The new airline will operate four times a week with a seasonal bump to daily flights during the Lunar New Year period. Photo: Sydney Airport. A new Shanghai-Sydney service that first touched down on Tuesday may have turned the airport into Australia’s major gateway to China. Juneyao Air’s inaugural service lifted the airport’s seat capacity…
Ukrainian crews training on Leopard 2 tanks in Zagan, Poland. Photo: NATO EUROPE needs to adopt a wartime mindset — again, NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte says. He was speaking at a conference organised by the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels, home to NATO last week (Thursday local time). “The security situation does not look good. It’s…