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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.

The China hedge
John LeeApril 4, 2011The National Interest

China’s just released National Defence White Paper criticizes America for reinforcing anti-Chinese alliances in the...

Why Taiwan will fail
John LeeApril 1, 2011The Wall Street Journal

Last weekend, Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs was quick to attribute the country's continued double-digit...

Cracks in ‘Great Firewall of China’
John LeeApril 1, 2011The Washington Times

China's crackdown on political activists and commentators in light of the Jasmine revolutions sweeping across...

Good news for Chinese banks, bad news for reforms
John LeeMarch 31, 2011Forbes

As expected, China's four banking giants are rolling out impressive figures. Industrial & Commercial Bank...

Haunted by China’s ghost cities
John LeeMarch 29, 2011Business Spectator

When Glenn Stevens admitted last month that the Reserve Bank had consistently underestimated the China-fuelled...

Why Australia’s socialist Prime Minister now loves America
John LeeMarch 11, 2011The Weekly Standard

As the secretary of the extreme left-wing group Socialist Forum during her student days in...

Preserving Peace as China Rises I
Benjamin HerscovitchMarch 13, 2014FPA9

Inventive foreign policy that can simultaneously reassure the Indo-Pacific’s established powers and accommodate Chinese ambitions...

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...

Future Submarine Project Should Raise Periscope for Another Look
Simon CowanOctober 24, 2012PM130

The Future Submarine Project – replacement of Australia’s 6 ailing Collins Class submarines with 12...

Southeast Asia’s American Embrace
March 29, 2012FPA7

All Southeast Asian states want to take advantage of the benefits of a rising China,...

After the Wall – Reflections on the Legacy of 1989
John Lee, Lee Duffield, Martin Krygier, Oliver Marc HartwichSeptember 8, 2010OP116

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 brought the Cold War to an...

The fantasy of taming China’s rise 
John LeeMay 6, 2010FPA3

Executive Summary In a recent article, prominent foreign affairs author James Mann argued that ‘The...

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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