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  • 25 Feb 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia
    • China

    China’s grey zone tactics amount to far more than just laser games

    Peter Layton
    A Chinese warship’s use of a laser on an Australian surveillance plane was no accident but purposeful aggression.
  • 24 Feb 2022
    • Global Economy
    • Public Opinion
    • United States
    • Trade
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • China
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Economic diplomacy: Slow dividends for Australia from ASEAN spending

    Greg Earl
    Amid the Ukraine sanctions showdown, an Indian trade deal looms as a pre-election win for the Morrison government.
  • 24 Feb 2022
    • China
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    China and the Ukraine crisis

    Nick Bisley
    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine presents the biggest diplomatic challenge the PRC has faced since the financial crisis.
  • 24 Feb 2022
    • China
    • Russia
    • Technology
    • United States

    The election for the future of the internet

    Mercedes Page
    A battle for authoritarian control of the internet is underway at the most important UN body you’ve never heard of.
  • 23 Feb 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia
    • China
    • Russia
    • Ukraine

    Russia-Ukraine: Lessons for Australia’s defence

    Sam Roggeveen
    Great powers seek spheres of influence – but there are limits.
  • 16 Feb 2022
    • Myanmar
    • China

    Handle with care: China’s economic engagement in Myanmar

    Xue Gong
    Beijing’s state-driven businesses have learned to adapt and adopt in the shadow of democratic openings and coups d’état.
  • 9 Feb 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • India
    • Japan

    Delivering promises will show steel in Quad

    Indrani Bagchi
    Presidents Xi and Putin make a deliberate show of solidarity, but Quad partners should focus on boosting defence ties.
  • 4 Feb 2022
    • China

    Olympics not the only games this year

    JJ Rose
    Beijing boycotts are just the latest in a long line of sports and politics match plays.
  • 2 Feb 2022
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • China

    How China views “strategic competition” with the United States

    Matthew Sussex , Michael Clarke
    Contrasting official readouts of the recent Biden-Xi summit offer an insight in Beijing’s attitudes on world order.
  • 31 Jan 2022
    • China's Government
    • China's Economy
    • China

    China’s “common prosperity” is a Catch-22

    Henry Storey
    A phenomenal housing glut in the Chinese market is eroding the country’s productivity and economic future.
  • 28 Jan 2022
    • China
    • Russia

    Living with a feared China and Russian-built chaos

    Peter Layton
    Giving way in the face of belligerence won’t make it stop – but nor does aggression portend doom and major war.
  • 27 Jan 2022
    • Global Economy
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • Trade
    • China

    Will the EU step up to secure rules-based Indo-Pacific trade?

    Peter Draper , Naoise McDonagh
    The rivalry with China is systemic and heft is needed to anchor market-orientated trade.
  • 25 Jan 2022
    • Australia
    • China
    • Solomon Islands

    Solomon Islands: cops bearing gifts

    Gordon Peake , Graeme Smith
    Australia and China offer the archipelago nation a grab bag of policing options that often miss the mark.
  • 25 Jan 2022
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Hong Kong

    China’s new reality

    Evan Freidin
    Forget geopolitics and military muscle flexing. Reality TV is where Beijing and Taipei can put aside their differences.
  • 24 Jan 2022
    • Australia
    • China
    • United Kingdom

    The D10 is dead, long live the … Network of Liberty?

    Mercedes Page
    Not explicitly focussing on a grouping of democracies is smart and includes more countries engaged in pushback on China.
  • 24 Jan 2022
    • South China Sea
    • China
    • Indonesia

    Could minilateralism work in the South China Sea?

    Huynh Tam Sang
    Jakarta’s ambitions for a maritime alliance with its ASEAN neighbours is the right response to intimidation from China.
  • 19 Jan 2022
    • Central Asia
    • China

    Mongolia suffers under China’s zero Covid policy

    Antonio Graceffo
    Small and landlocked, the Central Asian nation struggles to balance its economy with essential public health measures.
  • 28 Dec 2021
    • China's Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China

    China’s economic punishment – Best of The Interpreter 2021

    The Interpreter
    Beijing sought to make Australia pay as a diplomatic freeze deepened. But the sanction didn’t entirely go to plan.
  • 23 Dec 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • South China Sea
    • Australia
    • China
    • Taiwan

    Myths that stir trouble in the South China Sea

    John Quiggin
    A major shipping route, yes, but vital? False claims about the value of these waters only make diplomacy harder.
  • 17 Dec 2021
    • China
    • Technology

    China, Australia, and the Internet of Things

    John Lee
    Australia must learn to manage, rather than avoid, the dilemmas of a global reliance on Chinese digital networks.
  • 16 Dec 2021
    • Global Economy
    • China's Economy
    • China

    Common prosperity meets the Belt and Road

    Henry Storey
    Xi’s emphasis on the “real-economy” could also engender a qualitative shift in the types of investments Beijing makes.
  • 15 Dec 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • China

    Crisis stability as a priority in US-China relations

    Heather Williams
    Arms control with China will look very different from arms control with Russia.
  • 14 Dec 2021
    • China's Government
    • China

    Lights! Camera! Action! A new Hollywood

    Shaun Cameron
    China’s love of American cinema is pushing the limits on a film industry that is highly regulated by the state.
  • 9 Dec 2021
    • China
    • European Union

    Europe is finally getting serious about China

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    The Global Gateway and Germany’s new government suggests trouble ahead for EU-China relations.
  • 7 Dec 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • Australia
    • China

    Taming the “grey zone”

    Megan Price
    It has become something of a catch-all phrase. But if everything is a grey zone tactic, to what extent is this helpful?
  • 3 Dec 2021
    • Global Economy
    • The Americas
    • China
    • India
    • Russia
    • Africa

    Twenty years of BRICS

    Stephen Grenville
    As analysis by acronym, it has been a stunning success. But for reorganising global economic governance?
  • 3 Dec 2021
    • China
    • Africa

    FOCAC: No mention of controversies while China sticks to a game plan

    Cornelia Tremann
    While largely business as usual, China’s major summit with African leaders did signal some important shifts.
  • 2 Dec 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Free trade vs economic resilience

    Greg Earl
    From Chinese iPhones to university classrooms, trade in services is being redefined.
  • 24 Nov 2021
    • Australia
    • China
    • Taiwan

    Paul Keating may be the “Grand Appeaser”, but is he wrong?

    Simon Cotton
    The lessons of history are many and few are simple. Empty threats can be just as damaging to a country’s reputation.
  • 24 Nov 2021
    • China
    • India
    • Climate change

    India, China cop finger pointing in climate politics

    Aarti Betigeri
    It really depends on your perspective as to who deserves blame for a disappointing process in Glasgow.
  • 23 Nov 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • International law
    • Technology

    Regulating unmanned underwater vehicles in Indonesian waters

    Taufik Rachmat Nugraha
    Deep sea drones are revolutionising marine science. But the military potential makes transparency essential.
  • 17 Nov 2021
    • China's Economy
    • China

    China’s digital currency: Next stop, Africa?

    Cornelia Tremann
    Beijing’s new electronic payment system has major implications for the global economy.
  • 16 Nov 2021
    • Australia
    • China

    Cautiously optimistic: Chinese students keen to get back to Australia

    Anna Boucher , Elisa Choy
    A data analysis of internet sources from within mainland China shows positive sentiment towards education in Australia.
  • 15 Nov 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • Southeast Asia
    • Singapore

    Is Australia relevant?

    Susannah Patton
    Neighbours in Southeast Asia may not be “forced to choose” but rather “left behind”.
  • 10 Nov 2021
    • Sustainability
    • China

    China: rejecting rubbish

    Shaun Cameron
    Far from trashing its reputation, Beijing did the world a favour by swinging the sword.
  • 9 Nov 2021
    • China
    • India
    • Sri Lanka

    India’s answer to China’s ports in Sri Lanka

    Chulanee Attanayake
    Adani’s multimillion-dollar investment in Colombo not only makes commercial sense, it’s a strategic game-changer, too.
  • 1 Nov 2021
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China
    • Geo-economics

    Markets and resilience in the face of economic coercion

    Darren Lim , Victor Ferguson , Scott Waldron
    Calls for a “China plus” strategy rightfully draws business attention to the need to manage rising geoeconomic risks.
  • 29 Oct 2021
    • China
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Just how serious is Xi about climate change?

    Elliott Zaagman
    China should have much to gain from a decarbonising global economy yet displays a confusing ambivalence to the question.
  • 29 Oct 2021
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • International law

    The legal case for defending Taiwan

    Christopher R Hughes
    If a narrow interpretation of international law saw China attack Taiwan, a League of Nations-style crisis would ensue.
  • 28 Oct 2021
    • Central Asia
    • China
    • Russia

    China’s education diplomacy in Central Asia

    Jon Yuan Jiang
    Where Russian universities once schooled the elite, students are increasingly changing preference.
  • 27 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • European Union

    AUKUS? Quad? FOIP? A fragmented approach cannot counter China

    Yatharth Kachiar , Priya Vijaykumar Poojary
    Only a coherent policy for the Indo-Pacific will work. The West needs to offer a strong economic balance to Beijing.
  • 22 Oct 2021
    • Trade
    • China's Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China

    China’s economic sanctions made Australia more confident

    Ye Xue
    Greed hasn’t left Canberra cowering in the face of Beijing’s attempted punishment.
  • 21 Oct 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Trade
    • Australia
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Los Angeles port pips China as Christmas grinch

    Greg Earl
    Amid an emerging global trade supply chain crisis, Australian economic policy advisers are more reserved about risks.
  • 21 Oct 2021
    • United States
    • China

    US-China: tiers of cohabitation

    Ali Wyne
    A new model of great power relations should begin with accepting the enduring need for coexistence.
  • 14 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • International law

    Would a war over Taiwan be legal?

    Ben Saul
    International law defines statehood and provides the rules of war, but ambiguities abound in the case of Taiwan.
  • 14 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • United Kingdom

    AUKUS: Why Beijing didn’t go ballistic

    Jia Deng
    China’s reaction was in words not deeds. Another high-profile case may have influenced its attitude.
  • 8 Oct 2021
    • China
    • Antarctica

    China and the future of the Antarctic mining ban

    Nengye Liu , Chen Jiliang
    The continent’s resources are frozen until at least 2048. But a carbon-zero shift could see them left on ice far longer.
  • 7 Oct 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • Japan

    Economic diplomacy: Japan’s new PM joins the (supply) chain gang

    Greg Earl
    New research shows Australia may be an export diversification role model.
  • 6 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • China
    • Taiwan

    Chinese warplanes overhead Taiwan (or maybe not)

    Peter Layton
    Multi-aircraft flights – some at night – signal a growing sophistication. But there are still limits.
  • 5 Oct 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • United Kingdom

    In defence of AUKUS

    Oriana Skylar Mastro , Zack Cooper
    This is not only about nuclear-powered submarines; it is about a strengthened US commitment to Australia.
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