Australia Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Wednesday urged Australians to be cautious when using Chinese AI model DeepSeek, the latest government to warn over its use.

China's imports of iron ore and seaborne coal are on track for a soft start to the year, with January arrivals declining to multi-month lows.

The growth in export value was largely driven by a surge in shipments to mainland China, following the removal of tariffs on Australian bottled wine at the end of March last year.

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and Nonresident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Hugo Bromley is an Applied History Research Fellow at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.

Australia’s dilemma is that there is a tension in balancing the commercial advantages of cheaper Chinese technology with our national security interests.

A Coalition Under Pressure The Quad, an alliance comprising the United States, India, Japan, and Australia, has emerged as a key counterweight to China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific. While not a formal military alliance,

Labor and the Coalition are trying to outdo each other over who will be the best friend of China after the next federal election, in a dramatic shift from the COVID era trade war when Scott Morrison was Prime Minister. Trade Minister Don Farrell has told 7NEWS he wants to take the trading relationship with Beijing to a new record high.

The rising popularity of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI platform, has raised data privacy concerns. While Australia has asked users to be cautious, Italy’s Data Protection Agency has posed questions about how the chatbot uses personal data.

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.

The China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus, one of China's most celebrated choral ensembles, will make its Australian debut in March 2025 with its extraordinary production of the Yellow River Cantata.

So much for the quiet pre-holiday trading session as Asian equities were mixed though Australia was closed for Australia Day, Indonesia was closed for Al Isra’ wal-Mi’raj, South Korea was closed for the Korean New Year,

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