Judicial repression in Hong Kong

The more the Chinese and Hong Kong authorities politicise local courts, the harder it will be for them to pretend that Hong Kong’s legal system can survive under China’s dark shadow.

Turn into something beautiful

China’s imposition of a draconian ‘national security law’ has quashed but failed to extinguish the embers of Hong Kong’s democracy.

Pride before the fall

President Xi has concentrated all power in China in his hands, a recipe for disaster which may soon come to the boil.

China aims to crush Taiwan under the ‘wheels of history’

From Adolf Hitler to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, aggressive tyrants often set out exactly what they plan to do then take commentators and democratic leaders by surprise when they do them. Xi Jinping’s plans to invade and assimilate Taiwan are no exception.

The long march

A new book warns that Xi Jinping is determined to solidify his own power and further entrench communist rule at home while throwing China’s weight around abroad.

China crisis

Former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and John Howard sought closer ties with China in their time, and both remain hopeful that conflict can be avoided.

Understanding China’s power game

The Chinese government’s aggression towards Taiwan has highlighted the range of powers and tools it wields and understanding its tactics through Chinese eyes will help the West counter its assault on the free world.

China’s crushing of Hong Kong

Twenty-five years after the British handover of Hong Kong to China, every promise made by Beijing to respect its citizens’ rights has been broken.

Facing facts over China

Australians have as much reason to be wary of China’s communist government as people in Taiwan, because China’s communists have shown they don’t care about people anywhere – not in China, not in Taiwan and not in Australia.

The travails of Taiwan

As with Vladimir Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine, Xi Jinping’s violently aggressive actions in the past few days against Taiwan – and Japan – clearly reveal China’s true nature and intentions.

China’s propaganda war over Xinjiang

China’s online propaganda operations deny, distract and deter voices critical of Bejing’s oppression of Uyghurs by flooding social media with positive depictions of Xinjiang and whitewashing evidence of human rights abuses.

Can Taipei escape the claws of Beijing?

China’s rhetoric and military build up make clear its designs on invading Taiwan, but the support of the West could still avert disaster.