Facing the dragon

China’s decision to place bounties on eight exiled activists, two of whom live in Australia, is part of a pattern of transnational repression, and a typically brazen violation of human rights, personal freedoms and national sovereignty.

Calling out Chinese cyber attacks

Chinese cyber-attacks on Australian and Western assets are a major threat and, like their Russian, North Korean and Iranian counterparts, should be called out by democratic governments.

China’s hidden hand

A new book by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg explores how the Chinese Communist Party’s global influence operations strive to undermine Western democratic institutions.

Standing together

If a country and economy like Australia can remain steady in the face of Beijing’s attempts to weaponise trade, and can stand alongside partners who are doing the same, Beijing will have a shrinking strategic space in which to play its coercive trade games.

China remains the greatest threat to national security

While China is lifting some of the economic sanctions imposed on Australian trade, its long-term aim of dominating the region, coercing its neighbours and ignoring international norms remains as clear as ever.

China’s war on history

Fighting historical nihilism has been high on the list of Xi Jinping’s fight for regime security. As China reverts increasingly backwards into an era of thought control and totalitarian rule it is once again the people that suffer.

The West must unite to counter Beijing’s global ambitions

The West’s long standing neglect of the Global South has seen Beijing seize its chance to extend its influence and power. Countermeasures by the West have been late in coming but are now more crucial than ever to maintain security uphold international law.

China-GPT

China’s attempts to copy the latest wave of AI chatbots will be hamstrung by the Communist regime’s paralysing fear of its own people and determination to suppress the free flow of information.

Countering China’s coercive “diplomacy”

Democratic governments must pursue a deterrence strategy that seeks to change the Chinese communist party’s approach to its coercive international tactics by reducing the perceived benefits and greatly increasing the costs.

Welcome to the danger zone

In their book, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, Hal Brands and Michael Beckley argue that China is passing its economic peak but that this increases its temptation for aggression against its neighbours and the West.

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.