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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.

Pakistan a Chinese pawn to stall India
John LeeJuly 19, 2011The Australian

AT the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting of defence ministers in Singapore last month, Indian Defence Minister...

China’s exports don’t fuel boom
John LeeJuly 6, 2011The Washington Times

Marking the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party last Friday, President Hu Jintao told...

ASEAN must include US in talks on South China Sea
July 5, 2011The Jakarta Post

  Chastened by its failure to successfully negotiate a settlement in the recent border dispute...

US will Remain the Preeminent Player in Asia
John LeeJuly 1, 2011China - US Focus

In early May, I gave an interview to the Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper arguing...

Beware China’s control of rare earth minerals
John LeeJune 27, 2011The Wall Street Journal

There was a time several years ago when the Australian business community viewed China in...

China and the tactical utility of international norms
John LeeJune 22, 2011Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Katherine Morton’s conclusion that we should not expect, much less fear, the imminent arrival of...

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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...

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...

Sydney universities hiding from the facts about Chinese students
Salvatore BabonesAugust 21, 2019The Sydney Morning Herald

One of the great pleasures of teaching at a top global university like the University...

Australian universities can’t rely on India if funds from Chinese students start to fall
Salvatore BabonesAugust 21, 2019The Conversation

Australia’s leading universities are now looking to India in search of new sources of international...

Australian universities treating overseas students as cash cows
Salvatore BabonesAugust 20, 2019The Daily Telegraph

Our universities have become dangerously dependent on overseas students whom they treat as cash cows....

Security is key issue
Anastasia LinAugust 16, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Given the recent news regarding the arrests of Canadian, Australian, UK and US citizens in...

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