China's Troops On Long March In Aussie Wool

CHINA'S ambassador to Australia, Zhang Junsai, yesterday laid part of the blame for his country's increasing military spending on its efforts to provide better uniforms for its army - and high Australian wool prices.

In The Previous Crisis, China Built Roads To Nowhere; This Time, It Might Arrive

Beijing's leaders seem to be unaware of the scale of the global financial meltdown.

China's Leaders Are Struggling To Deal With The Shocks

Finances are sturdy; the problems are housing and exports.

Now For The Agricultural Revolution

A new land reform could change the lives of China's farmers, mostly left behind by the country's economic success, writes Mary-Anne Toy.

Legal Action To Make Chinese Daughter One Of Us

A COUPLE has launched legal action to obtain a NSW birth certificate for the daughter they adopted in China so she will not have to use Chinese documents, including a "certificate of abandonment", as identity papers in Australia.

China Smelters Output To Fall

CHINA'S aluminium producers are preparing to slash production because of a softening export outlook and a deepening construction downturn.

Excess Capacity: Aluminium Producers Hit The Brakes

CHINA'S aluminium producers are preparing to slash production because of a softening export outlook and deepening construction downturn.

Sino Gold To Look At Western Companies

SINO Gold will consider applying its strong balance sheet to acquisitions to take advantage of recent falls in the market value of Western gold exploration companies in China.

Sino Looks For Other Opportunities In China

SINO GOLD will consider applying its strong balance sheet to acquisitions to take advantage of recent falls in the market value of Western gold exploration companies in China.

Resource Demand From China Will Hold Up: Economist

THE global economic slowdown may curb demand for Chinese exports, but strong domestic growth means the country's thirst for Australian resources will continue, according to a leading economist.

Rio Keeps Faith In Chinese Economy

THE chief economist of Rio Tinto, Vivek Tulpule, no longer likes to use the phrase "decoupling" when it comes to the relationship between China and Western economies.

Pain Is Felt Most At The Margin

The slowdown that China is experiencing is destined to be a small chapter in a lengthy and profitable story, but it is a crucial ingredient in this year's larger global pullback.

Resourceful China Fights To Preserve Growth

THE Chinese economy has slowed to a single-digit growth rate for the first time since it kick-started the resources boom five years ago.

The Sky Is Blue And The Smokestacks Are Sorely Missed

China's domestic economy is slowing, but no-one really knows how much.

Exports Down, Growth Weaker: China Story Reaches An Uncertain Chapter

The giant market is no longer Australia's saviour as the rest of the world wobbles. IT'S now eight weeks since Beijing waved goodbye to the Olympic Games and yet the sky is still an eerie, brilliant blue. The world is waiting for China's smokestack economy to roar back to life.

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China To Get Its First 'real' Footy Ground

A MELBOURNE-BASED company will build an Australian football ground in Tianjin, Melbourne's sister city in China. Thomson Perrett,

China Will Taste Democracy By 2020, Says Official

A PROMINENT Communist official has predicted that China will have a form of democracy by 2020, in a sign that political reform may be back on the agenda after being sidelined this year by the Government's iron-fisted response to the Tibetan riots and the Olympics.

Reform Back On China's Post-olympics Agenda

A SENIOR Communist official has optimistically predicted that China will have a form of democracy by 2020, a sign that political reform may be back on the agenda after being sidelined this year by the Government's iron-fisted responses to the Tibetan riots in March and then the Beijing Olympics.

Communists Hope China Will Ride Out Global Crisis

THE Chinese Government has resisted calls to stimulate the economy immediately to ward off the growing financial and economic crisis.

American Era Ends - China Calls The Tune

The world order is changing, because China is propping up the US, writes John Garnaut.

Ore Sales To Suffer As China Cuts Back On Steel

AUSTRALIAN iron ore producers are facing the prospect of 20 million tonnes of lost sales by the end of the year as some of China's largest steelmakers cut their production in line with falling prices.

Iron Ore Stocks Fall On Slowdown Fears

IRON ore stocks have plunged on fears that a slowdown in China's steel industry, brought on by the global economic crisis, means that the days of boom demand and prices for the key steel-making raw material are over.

Alarm Bells For Australia As China Tries To Delay Iron Ore Shipments

AUSTRALIA'S mining sector has been rocked by the first signs that China could be preparing to cut its previously voracious demand for iron ore.

Jitters As China Hit By Metals Fatigue New Economic Threat

AUSTRALIA'S best shield from global economic turmoil - the high value of its commodity exports - is under threat with news that China has told suppliers to slow down iron ore shipments and predictions iron ore and coal prices could fall by 20 per cent next year.

Lucky Still, Thanks To China

WHEN the late Donald Horne coined "the lucky country" to describe Australia almost 45 years ago, the term stuck as a not very flattering image.

China Bullish On Its Prospects: Rudd

KEVIN Rudd has used his personal connection with China's leadership to get a first-hand assessment of that country's growth prospects and test its views about the future of the international financial system.

Our Economic Saviour Lies In The East

China is well placed to ride out the downturn and take Australia along.

Bhp Bid 'harmful' To China

A TOP adviser to the Chinese Government has warned a $132billion hostile takeover of Rio Tinto by global mining giant BHP Billiton would be harmful to China and unfair to the global economy.

China Pleads With Europe To Reject 'harmful' Bid

A TOP adviser to the Chinese Government has warned that a $132 billion hostile takeover of Rio Tinto by BHP Billiton would be harmful to China and unfair to the global economy.

Rio Pleads For A Rethink On China

RIO Tinto has moved to inject some competitive tension into BHP Billiton's hostile $126 billion takeover bid by urging the Australian Government to welcome more investment from China in the sector.

China Holds Aces As Us Loses Face

AMID chaos on Wall Street, the question looms - who wins? Increasingly, eyes are flickering towards China.

China's Construction Sector Starting To Slow

THE fate of resource-rich countries like Australia may depend on China and the rest of the emerging world, which last year accounted for half of world growth when measured in market exchange rates (and a much higher proportion when price differences between countries are taken into account).

China Is Open To Renewable Power

THE solar power magnate and Chinese-Australian billionaire Zhengrong Shi has not made his fortune by being pessimistic.