Many are asking whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese raised with Chinese President Xi Jinping that Australian sailors have been injured by sonar pulses from a Chinese destroyer.

Despite a positive meeting, the contest between the world’s two biggest economies remains heated, largely without guardrails and of immense risk.

There are limits around what Australia might hope to achieve and what it should expect in Beijing, but there is room for cooperation.

Wednesday’s September-quarter figures, showing inflation is still uncomfortably high, set off speculation about whether the Reserve Bank will increase interest rates again

In this podcast, senior fellow from the Lowy Institute and expert on Asia Richard McGregor joins The Conversation to canvass the prime minister's coming trip to China.

South-East Asia is anxious about the Ukraine war’s impact on regional economies. For New Zealand, that presents more pressing geopolitical priorities than confronting China.

China is seeking not merely to resist but to dismantle a foundational idea of the post-Cold War international order – the universality of human rights.