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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.

Don’t rush to back Beijing over Delhi
John LeeSeptember 13, 2010The Australian

The cover story on the August 21-27 edition of The Economist was entitled “Contest of...

After the Wall – Reflections on the Legacy of 1989
John Lee, Lee Duffield, Martin Krygier, Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 8, 2010OP116

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 brought the Cold War to an...

If only China were more like Japan
John LeeSeptember 1, 2010Business Week

Now that China has officially overtaken Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, there is growing...

China’s water grab
John LeeAugust 24, 2010Foreign Policy

In recent weeks, the United States has taken some assertive steps in the South China...

China’s rise and the road to war
John LeeAugust 5, 2010The Wall Street Journal

Four years before World War I, British author and politician Norman Angell published 'The Great...

Unpacking the black box
John LeeJuly 30, 2010Newsweek

Deng Xiaoping’s oft–repeated aphorism for the Chinese Communist Party is to ‘seek truth from facts.’...

Preserving Peace as China Rises I
Benjamin HerscovitchMarch 13, 2014FPA9

Inventive foreign policy that can simultaneously reassure the Indo-Pacific’s established powers and accommodate Chinese ambitions...

Accountable Authoritarianism: Why China’s Democratic Deficit Will Last
Benjamin HerscovitchOctober 31, 2013FPA8

The Chinese Communist Party’s evolving model of ‘accountable authoritarianism’ is set to prove that prosperity...

Future Submarine Project Should Raise Periscope for Another Look
Simon CowanOctober 24, 2012PM130

The Future Submarine Project – replacement of Australia’s 6 ailing Collins Class submarines with 12...

Southeast Asia’s American Embrace
March 29, 2012FPA7

All Southeast Asian states want to take advantage of the benefits of a rising China,...

After the Wall – Reflections on the Legacy of 1989
John Lee, Lee Duffield, Martin Krygier, Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 8, 2010OP116

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 brought the Cold War to an...

The fantasy of taming China’s rise 
John LeeMay 6, 2010FPA3

Executive Summary In a recent article, prominent foreign affairs author James Mann argued that ‘The...

Even now our universities remain addicted to China
Salvatore BabonesFebruary 19, 2020The Australian

Australia isn’t the only country exposed to a novel coronavirus recession in China. The COVID-19...

Coronavirus shock
Salvatore BabonesFebruary 7, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

China’s coronavirus outbreak has disrupted travel plans for millions of people — and could cost...

Our China-dependent universities cannot escape the financial shock of coronavirus
Salvatore BabonesJanuary 31, 2020The Sydney Morning Herald

China’s coronavirus outbreak has disrupted travel plans for millions of people – and could cost...

Communists lose the ability to care for themselves
Salvatore BabonesJanuary 31, 2020The Australian

Severe acute respiratory syndrome 2003. Pneumonic plague 2009. Coronavirus 2020. Avian flu just about every...

Another rebuke to Beijing
Tom SwitzerJanuary 17, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

Last weekend, Taiwan’s first female leader was re-elected in a landslide to claim a new...

Time to round up neighbours to resist China
Salvatore BabonesJanuary 6, 2020

If you think the Great Barrier Reef is in trouble, spare a tear for Subi...

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