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China Eastern flight attendant in Brisbane. Before the pandemic there were nine mainland Chinese airlines flying Australian routes. Photo: Glenn Hunt Want to fly to Paris in mid-September for a three-week getaway to experience the wonders of late summer in Europe? From either Melbourne or Sydney, you can pick up an economy class airfare on a budget airline for around $2200 but fly on a major league airline and you can expect to pay between $3500-$5000. The plane ticket has gone through the roof. In July 2022 you pay for a long-distance economy class seat which almost gets you into premium economy before the pandemic. Premium economy seats? Expect to pay close to what the business costs in 2019. What happened? Rising fuel prices are part of the reason we pay more to fly to Europe, but another big factor is the lack of low price competition. As of May 2022, a total of 51 international airlines operate scheduled passenger services to Australia. That’s 10 less than in Ma

If you watch the film China One Second on a streaming platform, you won’t see credit to the author whose book inspired the film. That’s because Chinese authorities have managed to remove any mention of the globally renowned Chinese-American writer Yan Geling, both in China and abroad. The film — directed by renowned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou — is available in Australia from platforms including Prime Video, Google Play and Apple TV. “I can understand if you don’t want to include my name because censorship doesn’t allow it in China,” Yan told the ABC from his home in Berlin. “However, this kind of practice is not acceptable abroad. The initial and life spirit of a work is given by the original author.” Director Zhang Yimou directed the opening ceremonies for the 2008 and 2022 Beijing Olympics. ( Reuters: Christina Charisius ) Born in Shanghai into a family of artists, Yan – a prolific book writer and screenwriter who has won more than 30 literary and film awards and is a member of t

When you are asked, “What is it?” this weekend, here’s your answer: Long March 5B, a 44,000-pound rocket body spinning toward Earth. But scientists aren’t sure when and where this debris is — from the Chinese launch last Sunday Wentian space station module — about to land. The Aerospace Corporation did release the latest prediction path for the debris – with the disclaimer that it’s too early to be sure. Experts believe that 20 percent to 40 percent of the massive rocket’s body mass will survive its fiery journey through Earth’s atmosphere to the planet’s surface, but not intact. Seventy percent of the planet is covered in oceans, so the odds are that whatever remains of the rocket will land in water, but that’s not guaranteed. Shrugging in response to the potential danger of the Long March 5B debris is nothing new. Aaron Boley, co-director of the Outer Space Institute and planetary astronomer at the University of British Columbia, said about 70 percent of rockets that orbit and r

China said it was tracking the wreckage of a large, newly launched rocket at the time reenter the earth’s atmosphere this weekend in what Beijing says will pose little risk to anyone on the ground. The Long March 5B rocket launched Sunday to deliver a laboratory module to the Chinese space station under construction, marking the third flight of China’s most powerful rocket since its maiden launch in 2020. As happened during its first two flights, the entire main core stage of the rocket – which is 100 feet (30 meters) long and weighs 22 tons (about 48,500 lb) – has reached low orbit and is expected to fall back to Earth after the atmosphere. friction drags it down, according to American experts. Ultimately, the rocket body will disintegrate as it falls through the atmosphere but is large enough that many chunks will likely survive re-entry into the debris rain over an area about 2,000 km (1,240 mi) long by about 70 km wide. based analysts said on Wednesday. The likely location of th

Wine exports to mainland China are scraping the bottom of the barrel, with just six million liters exported in the last financial year, worth $24.6 million. Key points: Wine exports to mainland China have fallen from 120 million liters per year to six million liters The US is now Australia’s largest export market by value Exports to countries other than China rose five percent to $2.06 billion That’s a big drop from the end of the financial year in 2020, when exports to mainland China totaled 120.7 million liters and were worth $1.1 billion over the 12-month period to June 30. That was before China imposed import tariffs of around 220 per cent on bottled Australian wine imports later that year. Overall it has been a difficult financial year for Australian wine producers with exports down 10 percent in volume to 625 million liters and down 19 percent in value to $2.08 billion in the year ended 30 June. Australian Wine market insight manager Peter Bailey said China’s results were expect

Yet another out-of-control Chinese rocket sparked concern – a year after one of Beijing’s spacecraft rained debris over the Indian Ocean. Experts fear that part of the 21-ton Long March 5B rocket, which was launched into space on Sunday, may fail to burn completely as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere. Then it will fall to the surface in an uncertain location and at high speed. Although the chances of debris hitting an inhabited area are very low, many experts think that China is taking an unnecessary risk. The country’s newest rocket was launched from the Wenchang launch site in the southern island province of Hainan over the weekend. The craft carries a new solar-powered laboratory, the Wentian experimental module, which will be added to China’s growing Tiangong Space Station. However, experts worry that part of the rocket’s core stage could fall to Earth – in a repeat of China’s launch last May that saw debris strewn across the Indian Ocean. At the time, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson

Among those developers are China Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer, with about US$300 billion ($430 billion) in liabilities, and the company that defaulted on its foreign bonds last year bringing home the scale of the crisis in China’s property sector. Its suppliers want to be held accountable for their loans, which may be problematic given that the group has not yet developed a workable restructuring plan and risks being declared default on its domestic bonds by domestic investors who have, until now, been prepared to extend the grace period. Evergrande has until the end of this month to work out its plans and prevent what would become a landmark default in China. Borrowers for incomplete apartment developments in China refuse to pay their debts, exacerbating the existing crisis in China’s vital property sector. Credit: Bloomberg Its ability to meet that deadline was complicated by the forced resignations of its chief executive and chief financial officer last w

China launched the Wentian lab module for the space station. Photo: Fan Wei/GT Wentian lab module successfully launched. Graphics: GT After moving into the core module of China’s Tianhe space station for more than a month, the crew of three Shenzhou-14 taikonauts are now just hours away from carrying out their first major mission in orbit, accepting the arrival of the Wentian laboratory module and adding it to the China Space Station three modules. With coconut palms shaking on the coastline of the tropical island province of Hainan in South China, the giant Long March-5B Y3 heavy-lift rocket lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site at 2:22 p.m., and successfully delivered Wentian – the first lab module for the station. the country’s outer space – to a predetermined orbit. After a flight of about eight minutes, the Wentian module separated from the rocket body and entered its designated orbit, marking the success of the launch mission, China’s Manned Space Agency said in a sta

阅读 中文版 After she finished high school, Wandi Cao’s mother had advice about her appearance. Key points: A recent controversy has swirled around some Chinese models because of the shape of their eyes Critics say the ads are caricatures or follow Western views Chinese government has urged TV companies to promote “right aesthetics” “My mother tried to persuade me to have double eyelid plastic surgery, so ‘my life would be so much easier’,” Cao told ABC China Tonight. Growing up in China, the 27-year-old model never thought she could “fit up with mainstream beauty standards”. “They thought my high cheekbones would curse my husband and my small eyes,” she said. “But I didn’t think it would change my personality and abilities, and I didn’t necessarily look prettier, so I didn’t.” Now living in Sydney, Cao moved to Melbourne in 2016 and started modeling. In Australia, she received a lot of praise for her looks from photographers and designers. It took him some time to realize that this comment