China’s COVID origins cover-up

The Chinese Communist Party continues to resist attempts to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and persecute citizens who told the truth about it, while pushing falsehoods through its worldwide media machine.

Chinese whispers

A new book by Roger Faligot on the history and extent of Chinese espionage is essential reading for both intelligence professionals and generalists wanting to understand the reach and power of China’s hidden hand.

Reducing Australia’s trade dependence on China

China’s use of trade bans to place political pressure on Australia means we must find alternative trading partners for a host of products, including iron ore and clean energy.

Cuckoo in the nest

Australia’s measures to limit Chinese influence are long overdue. All democracies have an interest in strengthening their internal and external arrangements against the PRC’s relentless predation.

Reading the Chinese playbook

There is no shortage of Australian apologists for China’s bullying tactics against this country, but understanding the propaganda playbook helps guard against falling for its distortions and lies.

The power of provocation

China’s use of social media as a weapon in its ongoing campaign to intimidate nations abroad while whipping up national fervour at home was exemplified by its latest blast of anti-Australian propaganda.

Australia’s options for pushing back against Beijing

Capitulation to the bullies of Beijing is unthinkable, but after years of being lulled into complacency, we need some policy imagination and decisive decision-making to secure our future interests.

China’s twitter propaganda backfires

China’s increasingly crude economic and misinformation campaign against Australia is only strengthening our resolve to resist such bullying.

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.

World peace: Why the West must crush Chinese ambitions

An increasingly powerful and aggressive China is extending its economic, political and military influence around the world. A concerted and immediate effort is required from democratic nations if Xi’s ambitions are to be thwarted.

The great Chinese cover-up

China may now want to expel foreign correspondents to control its own narrative and stem negative coverage but its connections to the outside world means the country can no longer be isolated and escape critical coverage, no matter how much it tries.

Reporting on China, not from China

For the first time since 1973, the Australian media has no foreign correspondents in China—a consequence of the Chinese government’s decision to drown out all critical voices, both foreign or domestic.