Lisa Visentin

Canberra, Sydney

North Asia Correspondent at Sydney Morning Herald

North Asia Correspondent at The Age

North Asia Correspondent | Sydney Morning Herald/The Age | Darwin girl | [email protected] |

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This luxury car can leap potholes and road spikes - but it’s not a Ferrari

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Lisa Visentin

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. You wouldn’t suspect it from the crowds that vied for snaps with Porsche’s line-up of new and classic models at Shanghai’s auto show, but the German luxury carmaker has fallen on tough times in China.
On TikTok, there’s only one winner from trade death spiral with China

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Lisa Visentin

What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletter delivered to your inbox. Singapore: Just as Beijing and Washington appeared to settle into their trade war trenches, as head-spinning tariff hikes gave way to a protracted stand-off, we saw the first signs this week of the Trump team’s retreat from the precipice. ... Want to unlock unlimited news?
On TikTok, there’s only one winner from trade death spiral with China

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Lisa Visentin

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletter delivered to your inbox.
On TikTok, there’s only one winner from trade death spiral with China

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Lisa Visentin

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Pope Francis’ China wishes would be PR win for Xi Jinping. So why hasn’t it happened?

3 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Lisa Visentin

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Pope Francis’ China wishes would be PR win for Xi Jinping. So why hasn’t it happened?

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Lisa Visentin

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Beijing: As China’s Catholics flock to Easter Sunday Mass, the recuperating Pope Francis will be in many of their prayers, but their great hope of seeing him visit their country remains a distant prospect for now. The 88-year-old Pontiff, who is slowly recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, has never set foot in China. No pope has.
Xi’s neighbourly charm offensive touches a raw nerve for Trump

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Lisa Visentin

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. By the time Xi Jinping touched down in Hanoi on Monday afternoon, as part of a five-day charm offensive in South-East Asia, the local press was already amplifying the Chinese president’s message to the region, and also to his US counterpart.
Top Australian judge Robert French quits Hong Kong court

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Lisa Visentin

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Former High Court of Australia chief justice Robert French has quit Hong Kong’s top court, becoming the latest in a string of foreign judges to resign from the bench after Beijing’s national security crackdown.
Xi has more cards to play than Trump in trade war showdown

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Lisa Visentin

By Lisa VisentinUpdated April 11, 2025 — 4.03pmfirst published at 4.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Tom Cruise is probably used to being caught in the crossfire of United States v China power plays. His 2022 blockbuster Top Gun Maverick never made it past Chinese censors. Now, his forthcoming film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is on the chopping block, too.
China says US stands to become ‘a joke in the history of the world economy’

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Lisa Visentin

Singapore: Beijing has declared that the Chinese market for US exports has been destroyed by the spiralling trade feud, as it hiked its tariffs on American goods to 125 per cent in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s duties on its products.