Summary: Dealing with the Digital Yuan. Policy choices facing Australia Throughout history, financial innovation has often been a precursor to …
China’s global media influence has encountered increasing pushback from numerous countries. This report looks at the perception of China’s influence …
There is much debate about whether the relationship of Philippines vs China should be one of appeasement or constraint. This …
The Chinese Communist Party is at the peak of its power as it enters its second century. This paper examines …
This paper argues that the now is the time to broaden and deepen the Australia-UK defence and security relationship as …
China’s unprecedented trade campaign against Australia is a case study in economic coercion for geopolitical purposes. Its aim is twofold: …
This paper assesses different ways in which Canberra can work with Washington in countering China as part of a broader …
This paper examines China’s subnational diplomacy in Australia and the suitability of Australia’s Foreign Relations Bill (AFRB) as a tool …
After suffering pushback at home and abroad in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) …
The coronavirus crisis was ‘the crisis that Australia didn’t have to have’. This paper lays out a detailed weekly timeline …
While in Australia with the Centre for Independent Studies, John Mearsheimer took time to speak to ABC Radio’s Queensland Drive …
As 2022 draws to a close, most people will be glad to see the back of it. The post-Cold War …
US midterm elections are always a vote of confidence in incumbents, and this year’s midterms are expected to inflict severe …
Australia is in trouble with China — again. This week the Chinese ambassador in Canberra, Xiao Qian, came close to …
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way, surprisingly, across the globe and into the Bangladeshi …
The AUKUS announcement, followed within hours by China’s application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership trade …
The formation of AUKUS underlines that the People’s Republic of China remains, as leading Chinese academic Zhu Feng says, a …
The Chinese Communist Party is at the peak of its power as it enters its second century. But how long can it …
There is no shortage of analysis of what Australia did wrong to China to cause Beijing’s wrath, and no shortage of …
A good mate of mine died this year. He was 90 — four decades my senior — and I think …