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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.

Balancing China in the Indo-Pacific
Sue Windybank, Renato Cruz De Castro, C. Raja MohanJanuary 20, 2022

Leading strategic analysts, C. Raja Mohan and Renato Cruz De Castro, discuss China’s increasingly aggressive...

On Liberty EP75 China’s risky path to riches
Salvatore Babones, Rowan CallickNovember 17, 2021On Liberty

The Chinese Communist Party is at the peak of its power, entering its second century....

What Really Happened in Wuhan
Sharri Markson, Tom SwitzerNovember 4, 2021

Has China’s suppression of information of what happened in Wuhan mean we will never know...

Can we rely on Uncle Sam?
Tom Switzer, Elbridge Colby, Peter VargheseNovember 1, 2021

September 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty),...

What Really Happened in Wuhan
Tom Switzer, Sharri MarksonOctober 27, 2021

CIS executive director, Tom Switzer sat down for a live in-person discussion with journalist and...

The New Cold War
John Mearsheimer, Tom SwitzerOctober 19, 2021

In his new essay for the New York-based Foreign Affairs magazine, Mearsheimer argues that the...

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...

Xinjiang Papers: chronicle of a tragedy foretold
Sue WindybankNovember 22, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Recent reporting of a 400-page leak from within the Chinese Communist Party — dubbed The...

Mandate from Heaven?
Salvatore BabonesOctober 19, 2019The National Interest

When Chinese leader Mao Zedong died in 1976, Chinese communism perished with him. Mao had...

Sport now a geopolitical minefield
Sue WindybankOctober 11, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Has the fallout from a single tweet by an American basketball team manager in support...

Blinded by the money
Lukas OpacicSeptember 27, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

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

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’...

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