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North Asia correspondent Michael Smith’s arrival is well-timed for the Japan’s October 31 election.

Shut out from the country, this is how the Australian media covers China We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss May 3, 2021 — 10.05am Normal text size Mike Smith was talking to the Irish Times China correspondent Peter Goff on their way back from Xinjiang, north-west China in 2019. The Australian Financial Review’s China correspondent and Goff had been invited by China’s State Council to view for themselves what conditions were like in the detention centres that had been built by the dozen across the region. A mother and child run through ...

after China's secret police came knocking late one night to his laneway house. The Australian Financial Review China correspondent, and author of The Last Correspondent, had another hairy moment two years earlier in China while covering North Korea. I had two close encounters with North Korea during my three years as a foreign correspondent based in China. The first was almost disastrous. I was in a speedboat with a photographer on the Yalu River, a murky waterway separating China from the most isolated dictatorship in the world, when the engine cut out. Michael Smith covering the Taiwan pres...