Standing up to China on trade

Trade policy is inseparable from strategy and security, and Australia must resist China’s attempts to use trade to ­coerce Australia over sovereign decisions it made in other realms.

China’s assault on global human rights

China is using economic coercion, inducement, harassment and manipulation through its belt and road initiative to undermine the international human rights framework.

Welcome to the danger zone

China appears to be on collision course with the West, given its aggressive rhetoric and actions, but conflict is not inevitable.

House of the dragon

China’s apparently unstoppable rise has been slowed by economic woes, international suspicion and internal dissent in recent months.

Protests surge in China

30 years after thousands of pro-democracy students were massacred in Tiananmen Square, nationwide popular protests against China’s harsh COVID lockdowns may spill over into renewed rage against the Communist Party and Xi Jinping’s brutal dictatorship itself.

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.