As Australia agrees to help redevelop Papua New Guinea’s Lombrum base, a Chinese official urges people to ‘discard the Cold War mentality’.

Trump and Xi speak on the phone.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a news conference that Chinese espionage has been “increasing rapidly,” and the government is launching a new initiative to crack down on Chinese espionage trade cases.

Washington opposed to unilateral threats to change island’s status quo, Brent Christensen says.

Rivalry and confrontation are prevailing but ordinary people will turn the tide, says Cui Tiankai.

Eleven-member pact gives rare momentum to liberalised trade amid global tariff wars.

Obama-era talk of co-operation turns to confrontation under hardliners Trump and Xi.

BDI industry federation calls on firms to reduce their dependence on China.

The indictment said at the time of the intrusions, a Chinese-state owned aerospace company was working to develop a comparable engine for use in aircraft manufactured in China and in other countries.

The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), released on Wednesday, fell to 50.2 in October, the lowest since July 2016 and down from 50.8 in September.