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Back to the future
Rowan Callick | September 5, 2021Xi Jinping dominates China’s Communist Party as completely as Chairman Mao before him, but as he eyes an invasion of Taiwan and ever greater global power, he may struggle to take a younger generation along with him.
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Dealing with a different China
Colin Chapman | August 5, 2021China’s fortification of the South and East China Seas, crushing of Hong Kong’s freedoms, oppression of Uyghurs and other minorities, and extension of Xi Jinping’s leadership from a decade to life signal the need for a strengthening in allied policy to contain its growing ambitions.
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Fighting back
Michael Shoebridge | July 21, 2021There can be no return to a trusting ‘win–win’ relationship with Beijing at the same time as we are being spied on and robbed blind by its hackers. It’s time to fight back.
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Standing up to China
Yan Bennett | May 30, 2021It is not racist or ‘anti-Asian’ to oppose China’s bullying affronts to human rights and the international rule of law.
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China’s actions, not Australia’s words, are the problem
Michael Shoebridge | May 2, 2021Naming the problem is a prerequisite to finding a solution and so a ‘country agnostic’ approach to the causes of regional insecurity is not credible and distorts public debate.
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Closing Australia’s China policy gaps
Michael Shoebridge | April 27, 2021The policy shift that has been underway since 2015 recognises that Australia’s previous policy can’t work in a world where China is asserting its power so overtly in ways that bring security and strategic differences into the foreground.
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Australian clarity, Chinese bluster and Kiwi equivocation
Peter Jennings | April 25, 2021Australia’s strong stance against Chinese bullying stands in stark contrast to New Zealand’s increasingly mealy-mouthed approach.
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Federal government quashes Victoria’s foreign deals
Michelle Grattan | April 23, 2021Foreign Minister Marise Payne has used new powers to end Victoria’s controversial trade agreements with China, Syria and Iran.
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In the shadow of the dragon
John West | March 30, 2021Sebastian Strangio’s new book argues the emergence of a more powerful and belligerent China poses the most serious foreign policy challenge that the Southeast Asian region has faced in a generation.
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China fights for every drop of water
Connor Dilleen | March 20, 2021China’s mega-dams are badly affecting other Asian nations dependent on natural river flows.
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Supply chains critical to Taiwan’s security
Open Forum | March 13, 2021While communist China works to isolate Taiwan in preparation for invasion, Taiwan’s vital importance to global technology supply chains offers another reason for the west, and the USA in particular, to defend it from attack.