Ed White

The Chinese leader sets foot on foreign soil for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started with a trip to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Samarkand, Uzbekistan; North Korea forms… Audio

Can art increase awareness of our coexistence with non-human inhabitants - including fungi, plants and animals? A new exhibition at Wellington's City Art Gallery aims to do this. At Thresholds opens… Audio

China is being criticised by many in the west for failing to join international efforts to stop Putin's invasion. Ed talks to Kathryn about China's official response to Russia's invasion and to… Audio

As the Winter Olympics draw to a close, from China, there are new signs that Beijing is deepening its support for Russia as the Ukraine crisis stands on a knife's edge. Grim times loom for Hong Kong… Audio

Ed talks to Kathryn about the somewhat muted start to the year of the tiger in China with Xi Jinping continuing with his zero-Covid policy as the rest of the world tries to get life somewhat back to… Audio

Financial Times Correspondent Ed White joins us from Seoul with the latest news - a hamster cull in Hong Kong, China's response to Omicron, and North Korea reconsidering the pause in nuclear weapon… Audio

Myanmar's popular leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four years as the situation worsens further in Myanmar. In Afghanistan there are signs China, via its mining companies, are looking at… Audio

Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times. Audio

Amnesty International is closing its Hong Kong offices in the latest blow for democratic freedom and the government is doubling down on its zero Covid strategy. In China Xi Jinping is pushing ahead… Audio

Thailand has responded to a tough economic outlook with new special visas aimed at attracting "wealthy global citizens" to move to the country's beaches. Myanmar's humanitarian, security and economic… Audio

The announcement of AUKUS has sent shock waves around Asia. How is this major new defence arrangement seen by key US allies in the region and the government in Beijing?. And after the surprise… Audio

Ed reports on China being expected to expand its influence and strategic interests in neighbouring Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's stunning return to power and he has the latest on Beijing's… Audio

Over the past nine months Chinese regulators have fired a volley of shots at some of the biggest names across the Chinese technology sector, with more to come with a further overhaul of data security… Audio

The Olympics will take place without spectators in Tokyo as a Covid resurgence forces Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will run throughout the Games. Ed White is a… Audio

Another dark period in Hong Kong with the forced closure of popular pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily and serious questions over whether Hong Kong's judicial independence is really under threat now… Audio

Ed has an update on Japan and the Olympic games, with the International Olympic Committee insisting that the games can and will go ahead despite frustratingly high Covid-19 infection numbers and a… Audio

The crisis in Myanmar is still unfolding and increasingly starting to involve western companies and governments. A slow covid vaccination rate in India is causing concern despite official numbers… Audio

Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times. Audio

Tension is flaring again between the US and China on multiple fronts, including economically. And in India, the Covid vaccine is being rolled out just as the infection rates are hitting new highs. Audio