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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.

China’s Ring of Power
John LeeSeptember 9, 2009Foreign Policy

What's green, greatly coveted, and offers extraordinary power to he who possesses it? For comic-book...

Foreign Policy: Why Beijing Needs To Be Brutal
John LeeJuly 6, 2009Foreign Policy

After scolding the West for interfering in the internal affairs of Iran, Beijing’s public relations...

China’s Empty Land Reform
John LeeJuly 4, 2009Guardian

Recently, Beijing announced new procedures to ‘give an effective guarantee’ to rural citizens that their...

Why China will not become like Singapore
John LeeJune 26, 2009

Recent conversations with Chinese political scientists brought home the great extent to which Beijing is...

Will China Fail? The Limits and Contradictions of Market Socialism 2nd Edition
John LeeJune 2, 2009

With the onset of the global economic crisis, China remains one of the only major...

Will China Fail: The Limits and Contradictions of Market Socialism 2nd Edition
John LeeMay 28, 2009PM96

Debates about China have been overloaded by the burden of interests rather than investigation, by...

The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities
Salvatore BabonesAugust 20, 2019AP5

Australia’s universities are taking a multi-million dollar gamble with taxpayer money to pursue a high-risk,...

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The China Challenge
Rowan CallickJuly 28, 2019OP171

The rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has helped make Australia rich, but...

Defending Liberal Democracy and Liberal Peace in the Time of Rising Populism and Fascism
Suri RatnapalaJuly 1, 2019AP3

Liberal democracy has been remarkably resilient in the face of external and internal threats, but...

Does Western Civilisation Have a Future?
Wolfgang KasperFebruary 19, 2019PP17

The question, whether our civilisation has a future, will sound preposterous to many. Has Western...

The rise of China’s imperial president
Kerry Brown, Peter Cai, Benjamin HerscovitchApril 13, 2015

Chinese President Xi Jinping has emerged as the Middle Kingdom’s most powerful strongman since paramount...

Preserving Peace as China Rises II: Preparing for a Post-American Asian Order
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 1, 2014FPA10

With US leadership unable to guarantee peace and security in the Indo-Pacific this century, the...

Obama switching sides over China
John LeeJuly 30, 2010Weekly Standard

American policy toward China is defined by a debate between the ‘functionalists’ and the ‘strategists.’...

The uncurious case of Xue Feng’s jail sentence
John LeeJuly 8, 2010Forbes

As Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu sat in the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court...

Hardsell soft power
John LeeJuly 2, 2010The Hindustan Times

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is obsessed with building ‘soft power’ — the attractiveness of...

The great China tech rip-off
Oliver Marc HartwichJune 24, 2010Business Spectator

China's resilient economic growth has prevented the economic crisis from becoming an economic catastrophe for...

A well-timed currency kowtow
John LeeJune 21, 2010The Wall Street Journal

The statement by the People’s Bank of China Saturday that it will again insert more...

India’s edge over China: soft power
John LeeJune 17, 2010Business Week

While China’s neighbours look at the country’s rise with a mixture of apprehension and admiration,...

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