China is ready to work with the Australian government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the foreign ministry said on Saturday, as it congratulated the Labor Party on its landslide re-election.

Australia must bolster its ability to operate in the “twilight zone” where everything from coastal patrols to foreign aid and ...

There is also the possibility the visit might help to progress negotiations on the renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding that Australia and China signed in 2014 that had “reaffirmed a long ...

"Under the new circumstances, China stands ready to join hands with Australia," Xiao wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald. But Australia's defence minister Richard Marles was quick to pour cold ...

China has traditionally avoided this strategic format, long considered a Western construct. Why now, and why Indonesia?

In an opinion column in The Age newspaper, China's ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian urged Canberra to collaborate with Beijing to defend the multilateral global trading system. "Under the new ...

Albanese’s choice of dining venue – in Box Hill, a Melbourne suburb where about 30 per cent of residents were born in China – was a reminder that Australia’s May 3rd election could turn on ...

SYDNEY: Australia rebuffed China's appeal to "join hands" to defend trade on Thursday (April 10), as Beijing looks for partners to help it blunt US tariffs now ratcheted up to 125 per cent.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Thursday declined Beijing's proposal to work together to counter U.S. tariffs, saying instead it would continue to diversify its trade and lower its reliance on China, ...