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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.

Comment: Democracy with Chinese characteristics
Benjamin HerscovitchOctober 10, 2014Business Spectator

Beyond inspiring global solidarity, the impassioned pleas for genuine democracy in Hong Kong are even...

The Bennetts of Beijing: marriage market, Chinese-style
Jenny LindsaySeptember 19, 2014ideas@thecentre

‘It’s all about the hardware and the software’, said Lisa, our knowledgeable 32 year old...

How to counterbalance China’s swelling military power
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 9, 2014Business Spectator

At the peak of American power in the immediate post-Cold War period, then-US President George...

Counterbalancing China in a post-American Asian order
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 5, 2014

Since World War II, the United States has been Asia's benevolent hegemon. Capitals across the region-from...

Preserving Peace as China Rises II: Preparing for a Post-American Asian Order
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 1, 2014FPA10

With US leadership unable to guarantee peace and security in the Indo-Pacific this century, the...

Hard-headed realism needed in the South China Sea
Benjamin HerscovitchAugust 13, 2014Business Spectator

Hopes of resolving the South China Sea’s bitter territorial disputes have once again proven illusory....

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...

John Mearsheimer: ABC interview excerpts
John MearsheimerOctober 23, 2023ABC Radio Queensland

While in Australia with the Centre for Independent Studies, John Mearsheimer took time to speak...

Self-inflicted challenges hit West on four fronts
Tom SwitzerDecember 14, 2022THE AUSTRALIAN

As 2022 draws to a close, most people will be glad to see the back...

Partisan games stir up the divided states of America
Tom SwitzerNovember 8, 2022THE AUSTRALIAN

US midterm elections are always a vote of confidence in incumbents, and this year’s midterms...

Xi Jinpin
Xi: the loneliest man in the world
Salvatore BabonesAugust 14, 2022SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Australia is in trouble with China — again. This week the Chinese ambassador in Canberra,...

Re-vamping the Pacific: will Australia ‘step up’ or ‘step out’?
Sean JacobsApril 29, 2022Spectator

In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way,...

Winds of global change hold risks for Xi’s ambitions
Rowan CallickSeptember 24, 2021The Australian

The AUKUS announcement, followed within hours by China’s applica­tion to join the Compre­hensive and Progressive...

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