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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 Need for U.S.-Australia Leadership to Counter China across the Indo-Pacific
Erik M. JacobsMarch 25, 2021PP36

This paper assesses different ways in which Canberra can work with Washington in countering China...

Advice holds: see China as it is, not as it ought to be
Tom SwitzerDecember 29, 2020THE AUSTRALIAN

A good mate of mine died this year. He was 90 — four decades my...

Acquiescence is not the answer
Tom SwitzerDecember 4, 2020Ideas@theCentre

We are told that Australia’s political leaders must try to ‘rebuild trust’ with Beijing, while...

Critics of Australia’s China policy don’t have much to offer
Tom SwitzerNovember 30, 2020Financial Review

American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the...

A House Divided: The AFRB and China’s Subnational Diplomacy in Australia
Salvatore BabonesNovember 12, 2020AP17

This paper examines China’s subnational diplomacy in Australia and the suitability of Australia’s Foreign Relations...

When personal becomes geopolitical
Sue WindybankNovember 6, 2020Ideas@theCentre

A public hearing held over three weeks ago as part of the Senate inquiry into...

The Need for U.S.-Australia Leadership to Counter China across the Indo-Pacific
Erik M. JacobsMarch 25, 2021PP36

This paper assesses different ways in which Canberra can work with Washington in countering China...

A House Divided: The AFRB and China’s Subnational Diplomacy in Australia
Salvatore BabonesNovember 12, 2020AP17

This paper examines China’s subnational diplomacy in Australia and the suitability of Australia’s Foreign Relations...

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The Elite Embrace
Rowan CallickNovember 3, 2020OP177

After suffering pushback at home and abroad in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, the...

The 12-Week Window: Coronavirus crisis Australia didn’t have to have
Salvatore BabonesJune 2, 2020AP9

The coronavirus crisis was ‘the crisis that Australia didn’t have to have’. This paper lays...

Mitigating the New Cold War: Managing US-China trade, tech and geopolitical conflict
Alan DupontMay 22, 2020AP8

This paper concludes that the linked US-China trade, technology and geopolitical conflicts have precipitated a...

Australia’s Export Exposure to China’s Coronavirus Epidemic
Salvatore BabonesFebruary 18, 2020AP7

This paper estimates the direct and immediate effects of the coronavirus epidemic on the revenues...

Paper tiger: China’s no threat to the US
John LeeMarch 1, 2010Business Week

The mythical story of Damocles, a naive courtier to the tyrant Dionysius the Elder of...

Confronting Beijing’s new bipolar reality
John LeeFebruary 18, 2010The Washington Times

Several years before his historic visit to China in 1972, Richard Nixon articulated what was...

Obama ditches soft approach towards China
John LeeFebruary 5, 2010

Dr John Lee is a foreign policy Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies.

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Big trouble with big China
John LeeFebruary 4, 2010Foreign Policy

U.S. President Barack Obama has spent much of the last 12 months emphasizing the ‘mutual...

Why China won’t be a ‘responsible stakeholder’
John LeeFebruary 2, 2010The Wall Street Journal

President Barack Obama, the world’s most powerful person, spent much of 2009 attempting to charm,...

China’s new Silk Road geo-strategy in Asia
John LeeJanuary 29, 2010Tehran Times

Toward the end of World War II, the godfather of geopolitics, Nicholas Spykman, offered his...

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