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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.

Banking on China’s democratic deficit
Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 5, 2013The Strategist

The idea that China’s one-party state will eventually implode under the strains of authoritarianism’s inherent...

The end of the end of history?
Benjamin HerscovitchNovember 1, 2013

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

Accountable Authoritarianism: Why China’s Democratic Deficit Will Last
Benjamin HerscovitchOctober 31, 2013FPA8

The Chinese Communist Party’s evolving model of ‘accountable authoritarianism’ is set to prove that prosperity...

Age of prosperity no longer a path to democracy
Benjamin HerscovitchOctober 31, 2013The Drum

Increasing prosperity will encourage minor democratic reforms, but it will only push nations a few...

Authoritarian China prospers without democracy
October 31, 2013

Grassroots democratic activism exploded across the developing world in 2013. Is China next? With an...

China’s Icarus sheds light on the limits of the law
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 27, 2013

Last week's conviction of former Chinese political superstar Bo Xilai was riveting legal drama. The...

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