From 1 July, work undertaken lawfully in Australia by journalists, think tank analysts, academics and others may be characterised as criminal under Chinese law. China’s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law claims legal authority …
Articles by: "Geoff Wade"
At the centre of the web is the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification. It creates a statement or a political line, and ‘peaceful reunification’ bodies all over the world act as …
Litigation by the Chinese lessee of Darwin Port is an attempt at stymying the Australian government’s stated aim of returning the facility to Australian control. The case started at the World Bank is no mere …
A remarkable conclave took place in Hanoi on 16 March. China’s foreign affairs, defence and public security ministers met their Vietnamese counterparts in a strategic dialogue. The ministerial mechanism is new in the China–Vietnam relationship, …
The State Grid Corporation of China (国家电网公司), the world’s largest electric utility company, is the monopoly power distributor across China in all but five southern provinces and a behemoth with an extensive network of subsidiary …
In a quiet but undoubtedly significant event, Admiral Wu Shengli (吴胜利), commander of the People’s Liberation Army Navy and a member of the PRC’s Central Military Commission recently visited Malaysia with an entourage of 10 …
My Strategist post on Monday has stimulated considerable interest from readers in respect of the claimed People’s Liberation Army (PLA) connections with Landbridge. To provide further information and allow people to make their own assessments of the connections, …
Peter Jennings’ ‘Darwin: storm in a port’ has brought to broader attention the apparent nonchalance with which the lease of the port of Darwin by Chinese firm Landbridge has been treated by many parts of …
Michael Fullilove’s address to the National Press Club urging a ‘larger Australia’ engages directly with the vital question of Australia’s future. A subsequent query by his colleague Sam Roggeveen—‘What should Australia aim to achieve with …
The commercial woes of Qantas have blanketed the airwaves and newspapers of late, but the government’s intent to change the Qantas Sale Act to allow more foreign ownership of the airline seems unlikely to be …
The last day of 2013 marked more than the close of the year: it signalled the end of one of the most important global sources of publicly-accessible intelligence. Through a low-key notice, the United States …
In the Chinese Buddhist tradition, as we flail in the ‘bitter sea’ of existential illusion, we only need to ‘turn to the other shore,’ constituted by the Buddhist path, in order to find Enlightenment. Australia …