Stand up, Australia

While the United States under Donald Trump has emerged as a greater threat to Western unity and territory than China in recent months, Australia must still find some backbone in standing up to its nearest regional challenger.

Is China a superpower?

China’s economic power, military modernisation and aggressive foreign policy towards Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific may not be enough to grant it super power status, according to a new book by historian Frank Dikotter.

Australia in a disordered world

Australia’s prosperity, stability and strategic freedom has historically been underwritten by a great power that shared our values. First it was Britain, then the United States, but Chinese dominance will strive to destroy them.

Despite it all, China dominates Australian trade – again

China has reasserted its dominance over Australia’s export markets, taking a record of almost 1 billion tonnes of mineral resources and agricultural commodities last year, and displacing the trading partners that helped Australia out during the years it suffered Chinese economic punishment.

Chinese whispers

Beijing would have us believe that Australian politicians cannot speak openly and honestly about China’s geopolitical ambitions without fear of losing Chinese-Australian voters. Don’t fall for it.

Lessons from China

China is a brutal autocracy intent on international expansion but its success in renewing its internal infrastructure and industrial power offers lessons the West would do well to learn if we are to compete.

Cold war in warm waters

As Australia prepares for a national election in May, China’s Pacific ambitions are again making headlines.

Worst case scenario

China’s imperialist designs on the region demand immediate strengthening of the nation’s defences, particularly as the United States withdraws from the alliances which have kept the peace for 70 years.

Bambi meets Godzilla

China’s unveiling of radical prototype aircraft has sent shockwaves through the West’s defence establishment, as China now threatens to out-innovate as well as out-produced its democratic counterparts in terms of military might.

Small is beautiful for China

Australia’s efforts to curry favour in the Pacific by investing in smaller projects and firms are already facing competition from China.

One man, one vote

While democracies mobilise the talent and ideas of all their citizens, authoritarian states rely on the agenda of their leadership cabal and China is the latest nation to pay the price for one man’s ambition.

Sanction Chinese companies supporting Russia in Ukraine

Australia should take concrete action against China’s material support for Russia’s illegal invasion and brutal occupation of Ukraine.