Australians are alert to the risks of potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait but are not yet prepared for the consequences, according to a report released by ASPI today on community and institutional responses to …
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In an article in The Australian, China’s ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, informed Australians that China would mark the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the …
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: Chinese-background voters are as divided and cantankerous as …
All nation states have a right to defend themselves. But do regimes enjoy an equal right to self-defence? Is the security of a particular party-in-power a fundamental right of nations? The Chinese government is asking …
Lecturing in Munich in 1919, German political economist Max Weber spoke of the modern state as a ‘human community that claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory’. That elegant statement serves to this …
Australia has a lot to learn from Taiwan but very few avenues for learning. A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan on 3 April. Amid severe damage and landslides, few were killed in the east-coast …
A piece missing from Australian conversations on the China–US tangle over Taiwan is the island’s growing strategic importance to other countries in the region. What happens between Beijing and Taipei matters for Japan and South …
In a world where two countries can disagree but not come to blows, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore this year, a central concept is ‘the word of the moment: “guardrails”’. …
Whatever we make of the visit to Taiwan by US congressional leader Nancy Pelosi, one good thing to come out of it is that Australians have a much clearer sense of President Xi Jinping’s determination to …
Many are asking what lessons China is drawing from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for its own plans to bring Taiwan to heel. Writing in the national business daily, the Australian Financial Review, international relations specialist …
Australia’s states, territories and communities enjoyed close and mutually beneficial relations with China for four decades from the late 1970s through to Xi Jinping’s rise to power in the 2010s. With Xi’s ascent, authorities in …
Enough has been said and left unsaid about the history of the Chinese Communist Party on the centenary of its founding to last us all a while. As the doyen of official party historians, Jin …