Rowan Callick

2 months ago | blogs.soas.ac.uk | Rowan Callick |Aki Elborzi

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, sees the world’s fascination with – and in places distaste for – Donald Trump as offering the Chinese Communist Party a further opportunity to seize ideological, economic and possibly also territorial ground in what he views as an epic global battle with the US. Many of our opinion leaders in Australia (as, one would imagine, in other Western countries including the UK), distressed by Trump and his circle, are set to intensify their antipathy to the USA.

Nov 10, 2024 | aspistrategist.org.au | Rowan Callick

It’s often hard work. It’s often in the face of ingrained habits of anxiety and suspicion. But Australia is steadily building closer links with that place that is in some ways its most natural partner in east Asia: Taiwan. Rather than ‘place’, I feel tempted to write ‘country’. A few years ago, the embassy of the People’s Republic of China sent a polite and, in the end, slightly puzzled diplomat to explain to me mistakes in articles I’d written. Foremost was that I’d referred to Taiwan as a country.

Mar 21, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Peter Layton |Rowan Callick |Nathan Schmidt |Jessica Wang

NSW Premier Chris Minns says he is committed to a “productive and stable relationship” with China as the country’s top diplomat continues his landmark visit. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi travelled to Sydney on Thursday following landmark talks with Foreign Affairs Ministers Penny Wong earlier in the week.

May 23, 2023 | thechinastory.org | Rowan Callick

Jan 26, 2023 | foreignaffairs.co.nz | Rowan Callick