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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.

Countering China’s BRI march
Hugh MorrisonOctober 5, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

As China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) marches west through Southern Asia, diplomatic envoys criss-cross...

Pacific anxiety: Should we worry about China?
Hugh MorrisonAugust 17, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

China’s increasing aid and infrastructure projects in the Pacific have stirred considerable media attention. But...

Has the West lost it?
Tom Switzer, Kishore MahbubaniAugust 8, 2018

For more than two centuries, the West has dominated international affairs. But is that era...

The West might be losing it – but China is far from winning
Tom SwitzerJuly 30, 2018The Sydney Morning Herald

For more than two centuries, the Western world has dominated international affairs. Is that epoch...

Australia’s choice: Chinese trade – or American security?
Tom SwitzerJuly 27, 2018The Spectator

An assertive China and chaotic Trump administration are making it difficult to have both. For...

The audacity of Xi Jinping
Rowan Callick, Tom SwitzerMay 17, 2018

Transfixed by Donald Trump, people in Western countries have turned with relief to the solidity...

The Fantasy of Taming China’s Rise
John LeeMay 5, 2010FPA3

‘The idea that the US can manage China is failing and America, including its allies...

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...

China’s Insecurity and Search for Power
John LeeNovember 13, 2008IA101

Sir Winston Churchill once said of Russia that its future actions were ‘a riddle, wrapped...

Putting Democracy in China on Hold
John LeeMay 28, 2008IA95

China’s transformation from the backward, autocratic economy of just three decades ago is probably the...

Game of Pacific cop and dodgers
Helen HughesJuly 1, 2003The Australian

The Howard Government's decision to help the Solomons by restoring civil order to the South...

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