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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 is destroying our universities
Lukas OpacicSeptember 27, 2019Spectator

The Solomon Islands recently decided to ditch its diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in favour of...

How many international students are too many?
Salvatore BabonesSeptember 6, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The CIS report ‘The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities’...

Yang’s detention affects us all
Sue WindybankAugust 30, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Australian writer and democracy campaigner Yang Hengjun has been formally arrested on espionage charges by...

How Chinese ‘lost humanity’
Anastasia LinAugust 24, 2019The Australian

Mainland Chinese once had as much compassion as Hongkongers. I was stranded in Hong Kong...

Time to get tougher with the PRC?
Jason Yat-sen Li, Anastasia Lin, Salvatore Babones, Private: Sue Windybank – Do not Use – DuplicateAugust 24, 2019

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s increasingly hardline rule at home and growing assertiveness abroad show few...

Time to get tougher with the PRC?
Anastasia Lin, Tom Switzer, Sue Windybank, Salvatore Babones, Jason Yat-sen LiAugust 22, 2019

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s increasingly hardline rule at home and growing assertiveness abroad show few...

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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...

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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