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While accepting the importance and value of the trade relationship with China, our new program called China and Free Societies aims to raise awareness of the challenges growing Chinese government influence poses to a free and democratic Australia.

The Asian languages non-problem
Benjamin HerscovitchJuly 6, 2012

The rise of Asia has led commentators like Greg Sheridan, the foreign editor of The...

Australia’s Asian embrace
Benjamin HerscovitchJune 15, 2012

Sam Roggeveen, editor of the Lowy Institute’s blog The Interpreter, recently suggested that coming to...

Sorry, Malcolm, Australia needs the US in the Asian century
Benjamin HerscovitchJune 13, 2012The Age
Reduced defence spending may well be sound public policy
Benjamin HerscovitchMay 21, 2012The Canberra Times

Defence suffered one of the biggest cuts in the 2012 budget. These cuts, totalling $5.4...

Defence-lite is sound policy
Benjamin HerscovitchMay 18, 2012

Defence suffered one of the biggest cuts in the 2012 Budget. These cuts, totalling $5.4...

Lessons from Southeast Asia
March 30, 2012

Foreign Minister Bob Carr will no doubt be glad to see the end of his...

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Dealing with the Digital Yuan. Policy choices facing Australia
Alice HanFebruary 15, 2023AP43

Summary: Dealing with the Digital Yuan. Policy choices facing Australia Throughout history, financial innovation has...

Chinese Whispers: China’s media influence and pushback in Australia and Asia
Ming-Chang TsaiDecember 20, 2022AP41

China’s global media influence has encountered increasing pushback from numerous countries. This report looks at...

The Philippines Caught between Appeasing and Constraining China: How Australia can help tip the balance
Renato Cruz De CastroSeptember 28, 2021PP44

There is much debate about whether the relationship of Philippines vs China should be one...

Xi Dreams of 100 More Glorious Years for the Party: Might China Awake?
Rowan CallickSeptember 16, 2021AP26

The Chinese Communist Party is at the peak of its power as it enters its...

Crucial Collaboration: The Case for Closer Australia-UK Defence and Security Ties in Light of a Rising China
Tom TugendhatJune 23, 2021PP42

This paper argues that the now is the time to broaden and deepen the Australia-UK...

Resisting China’s Economic Coercion: Why America should support Australia
Alan DupontApril 8, 2021PP38

China’s unprecedented trade campaign against Australia is a case study in economic coercion for geopolitical...

Counterbalancing China in a post-American Asian order
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 5, 2014

Since World War II, the United States has been Asia's benevolent hegemon. Capitals across the region-from...

Hard-headed realism needed in the South China Sea
Benjamin HerscovitchAugust 13, 2014Business Spectator

Hopes of resolving the South China Sea’s bitter territorial disputes have once again proven illusory....

The tragedy of 1914 and the precarious peace of 2014
Benjamin HerscovitchAugust 8, 2014

The centenary of the start of World War I raises a confronting question for Australia:...

Beijing sinks South China Sea code of conduct
Benjamin HerscovitchJuly 21, 2014China Spectator

Beyond being a shrewd military strategist, the ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu was also a...

Mentioning the war doesn’t discredit government’s deft diplomacy
Benjamin HerscovitchJuly 18, 2014

For the last two weeks, Canberra has been buffeted by Asia's great power politics. During...

Beijing’s real international ambitions
Benjamin HerscovitchJune 11, 2014China Spectator

According to Hans Morgenthau, one of the arch-realists of international relations theory, "International politics, like...

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