Trump and Kim’s latest summit fizzled - is anyone truly surprised? But what does it mean?

No matter who forms government after the next election, managing Australia's relationship with China will continue to be a major challenge, and vitally important in a region remaking itself.

The standoff over Australian coal imports through Dalian sends a powerful political message: that Beijing can turn imports off and on at will.

On the face of, this is a good pick by Scott Morrison, and may prove to be an inspired one. We shall see.

A US-China trade compromise appears to be bumping towards some sort of conclusion.

Chris Bowen, the embattled shadow treasurer, is a student of Niccolo Machiavelli, so much so that he quoted the Italian sage in…

Forgetting culture wars and campaigning on the economy is the Coalition's last best hope of avoiding an electoral drubbing.

The unexplained detention of author and diplomat Yang Hengjun has raised more questions about the motives of a Chinese government under stress from within and without.

Has there ever been a generation of Australian politicians whose speech patterns are lazier, sloppier and more atonal?