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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.

Missing the woods for the trees
John LeeJune 21, 2011The Hindustan Times

The consensus among Australian strategic elites is that India will play an important and benign...

China’s influence gap
John LeeJune 6, 2011The Wall Street Journal

After delivering his keynote at the Shangri-La Dialogue, the annual meeting of regional defense ministers...

Japan’s economic demons dog China
John LeeMay 24, 2011Business Spectator

The recent triple disasters of the tsunami, earthquake, and Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown means that...

China’s self-defeating currency policy
John LeeMay 12, 2011Business Week

China's trade surplus in April hit $11.4 billion, four times more than almost all economists...

China’s America Obsession:
John LeeMay 6, 2011Foreign Policy

In Thursday’s edition of China’s Communist Party-owned Global Times newspaper, the lead editorial was headlined,...

PM may trump Rudd in managing China
John LeeApril 21, 2011The Australian

Julia Gillard’s trip to Asia will call in on three of our four biggest trading...

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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...

Washington should not give ground in Asia
Benjamin HerscovitchMarch 13, 2014China Spectator

According to a traditional Chinese idiom, ‘one mountain cannot abide two tigers.’ Capitals across Asia...

The East is Authoritarian: Why China Will Not Democratise
Benjamin HerscovitchMarch 11, 2014Policy

The Chinese Communist Party may carve out an enduring place for its own brand of...

Government not to blame for Canberra’s China challenge
Benjamin HerscovitchFebruary 28, 2014

Supposed missteps have provoked accusations that the government is ill-equipped to manage Sino-Australian relations. In November...

Government wise to stand firm on China
Benjamin HerscovitchJanuary 24, 2014

'best friend'rebukes frosty Australian Financial Review'tough on China' 'inflict pain' Dr Benjamin Herscovitch is a...

China’s adaptive authoritarianism is here to stay
Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 18, 2013ON LINE Opinion

Capitalist liberal democracy’s twentieth century victories against expansionist fascism and communism were hard-won and yet...

Beijing’s reforms entrench a democratic deficit
Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 8, 2013Business Spectator

According to the Confucian ideal of the relationship between government and the governed, political leaders...

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