Ace Business Desk – In short: China-linked investors are defying federal government orders to divest from a Perth-based rare earths company. Northern Minerals is seen as a key player in efforts by both the US and Australia to break China’s stranglehold on the critical minerals supply chain: By foreign affairs correspondent Stephen Dziedzic Published: Wed 14 […]
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Ace News Desk – Protecting the ‘guardians’ of China’s coast with Recent environmental inspections to provinces including Guangdong and Guangxi in southern China flagged challenges with “inadequate” protection of mangroves. In this issue, Carbon Brief examines what challenges China faces in protecting its mangrove forests. The most recent set of China’s environmental inspections concluded at the end of September. The inspections […]
Ace Business Desk – IMPORT LIMITS: The EU and China have “reached a deal that could cut” Chinese hybrid car exports by more than half, reported Reuters, following meetings between European trade commissioner Maros Šefčovič and Chinese commerce minister Wang Wentao. In a press conference attended online by Carbon Brief, Šefčovič responded to a question about restricting access to […]
Ace Security Desk – According to analysis of public procurement documents by a Polish state-backed thinktank, Chinese wind companies are “replacing” European components with domestic alternatives due to “security and control” concerns, by Will Mathis, Bloomberg It goes onto say that implications for Europe’s wind turbine industry are “significant” The Guardian reports that the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on […]
Ace News Desk – China’s Blue Mirage: Fish farming in Xinjiang is sold as proof that technology can overcome geography. The reality is a desert seafood boom built on political control and forced labor Part of Investigation by Team of Journalists Based at The Outlaw Ocean Project By Ian Urbina Published: October 9, 2026 This […]
Ace Breaking News – In short: Chinese software company Shenzhen Qingcheng is being investigated by the Australian privacy commissioner following an ABC investigation. It revealed last month more than a dozen serious security flaws in the company’s app and website used in the glasses for sale in Kmart, Big W Marketplace and Amazon: By national […]
Ace History Desk – In short: A fossil of an ancient mammal relative with platypus-like appendages has been found in China. Megacauda sungei appears to be an early example of a semiaquatic mammal-like creature according to ABC Science News By environment reporter Peter de Kruijff Published: Thu 8 Oct 2026 at 1:58am The ancient animal lived about […]
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