Red tinted glasses

Innumerable articles dissect or criticise how Australia views China, but it’s China’s ideological perception of the world which may be more relevant to our diplomatic and strategic relations.

China remains the greatest threat to national security

While China is lifting some of the economic sanctions imposed on Australian trade, its long-term aim of dominating the region, coercing its neighbours and ignoring international norms remains as clear as ever.

Business changes tune on China

It has taken years of blatant bullying from Beijing for Australian firms to finally realise that nothing short of complete capitulation would get Australia back on China’s good side.

Downsizing Australia–China relations

Australia’s failure to emphasise the importance of values in our dealings with China inadvertently signalled to Beijing a willingness to trade them away.

Taking off the red-tinted glasses

The advocates of closer economic relations with China have dominated the debate for years, but China’s ever more outrageous behaviour is forcing even its most blinkered apologists to come to grips with reality.

China will lose in the blame game

In the space of a few short weeks, popular perceptions of the Chinese state in Australia have shifted in ways that, if replicated elsewhere, are going to be truly damaging to China’s international standing in the years to come.