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Clouds of precarity brewing over Australia

Australia faces an uncertain economic future if it does not successfully reduce its dependence on China, and resources. Read more...
Chinatown, Sydney

The end of Australia’s China boom shouldn’t be such a surprise

Australians have never been much good at admitting the good times will end, argues Michael Shoebridge.
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Dr. Geoff Raby at Gala Dinner

Book Review: China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order

Australia’s very future could be threatened by the deterioration in relations with China. A former Australian ambassador offers some new thinking and clear advice for salvaging the situation. Read more...
Chinese economy

Book Review - China: The Bubble That Never Pops

One of the great puzzles is why China's bubble economy has never popped. Read more...
The Effect of China & US Trade War on Iran:

Book Review: Superpower Showdown

The US/China relationship — arguably the most important in the world — is on a downward spiral.  The authors of Superpower Showdown describe it as a “romance gone bad”, as John West reviews.
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Minxin Pei and Elizabeth Economy

China’s Coming Upheaval

Minxin Pei's Foreign Affairs' article, "China’s Coming Upheaval: Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping", is certainly worth a read, writes John West
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'Maybe we'll have to give that a shot': Trump says lifetime presidency for Xi Jinping is 'great'

The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order

In their Foreign Affairs article, Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi argue that China Is Maneuvering for International Leadership as the United States Falters.
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Taiwan

Is Taiwan the Next Hong Kong?

In their Foreign Affairs' article, Michael Green and Evan Medeiros argue that China is Testing the Limits of Impunity.
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Trump Xi Jinping

Geopolitics in a post-pandemic world -- Podcast

Neither the US nor China have come out of Covid-19 very well.  We need more time to work out who comes out on top, if either indeed do.  They are both losers at the moment.
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Xi Jinping

Do middle powers have a China dilemma?

Andrew Peaple moderates a feisty debate between Kerry Brown and Matthew Henderson, on how middle powers should deal with the rise of China.
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People's Republic of China former Vice-President Xi Jinping. Xi was elected as the new leader of the Communist Party of China along with the new Central Committee.

Book Review: Hidden Hand

The Chinese Communist Party’s global influence operations are undermining Western democratic institutions, as highlighted in the "Hidden Hand", writes John West. Read more...
China's Migrant Workers

Book Review: What’s holding China’s economy back?

The CCP’s discriminatory hukou system is a great obstacle to changing from world’s factory to a service-driven economy, writes John West.
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Kim Jong-un visiting Berlin.

Book Review: China–North Korea Relations: Between Development and Security

China’s developmental peace approach to North Korea reads like a soft carrot and stick approach, writes John West. Read more...
Hong Kong Protests, Victoria Park

The end of Hong Kong as we know it

Beijing is killing the goose that laid the golden egg, as it imposes its own national security law on Hong Kong, writes John West.
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COVID-19 !

China: Power, Payback and Statecraft

The Great Twenty-First Century Power ‘game’ is afoot, writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Chinese Covid 19 Lockdown Madness Day 1,000,000

Who will 'Win' COVID-19?

Whilst COVID-19 is not a war, it could well come to be seen as the pivotal battle in a much wider and longer strategic ‘war’ for strategic dominance writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

ANALYSIS COVID-19: The Silk Road Pandemic

The 2020 COVID-19 crisis will do much to shape international relations in the twenty-first century, and not for the better, writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

Chinese Europe: Belt, Road and Chains?

Europeans tempted by BRI must be under no illusions that over time the belt will gradually tighten and the road will begin to lead to political and strategic subjugation, writes Julian Lindley-French. Read more...
Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

5D Warfare and China's 5G Digital Silk Road

China’s Silk Road policy is an unashamed attempt to compete with the West and extend its influence writes Julian Lindley-French.                       Read more...