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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.

US force needed to counteract China’s military resurgence in Asia
March 13, 2014

Ongoing US leadership in the Indo-Pacific is required to counterbalance a resurgent and increasingly assertive...

The East is Authoritarian: Why China Will Not Democratise
Benjamin HerscovitchMarch 11, 2014Policy

The Chinese Communist Party may carve out an enduring place for its own brand of...

Government not to blame for Canberra’s China challenge
Benjamin HerscovitchFebruary 28, 2014

Supposed missteps have provoked accusations that the government is ill-equipped to manage Sino-Australian relations. In November...

Government wise to stand firm on China
Benjamin HerscovitchJanuary 24, 2014

'best friend'rebukes frosty Australian Financial Review'tough on China' 'inflict pain' Dr Benjamin Herscovitch is a...

China’s adaptive authoritarianism is here to stay
Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 18, 2013ON LINE Opinion

Capitalist liberal democracy’s twentieth century victories against expansionist fascism and communism were hard-won and yet...

Beijing’s reforms entrench a democratic deficit
Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 8, 2013Business Spectator

According to the Confucian ideal of the relationship between government and the governed, political leaders...

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