Debate over China’s role in Australia’s security has become polarised, with critics retreating to a familiar refrain: China is our largest trading partner, so any security concerns are exaggerated. That argument is not just incomplete; …
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A nightmare that has haunted generations of strategic thinkers and policymakers in Australia has come true: we live in a region increasingly dominated by an Asian great power. China has rapidly become East Asia’s principal …
Serious middle powers enforce boundaries. They do not absorb pressure indefinitely. They do not treat hostility as misunderstanding. They do not mistake accommodation for statecraft. Australia does the opposite. In early 2025, a Chinese navy …
Everything Australia has achieved—prosperity, stability and strategic freedom—has been underwritten by a great power that shared our values. First it was Britain, then the United States. But with the second Trump administration, that arrangement is …
A review of Australia’s law on sub-national foreign relations has erred in suggesting that universities should face less scrutiny over their transnational education programs. The legislative proposal comes just as Australian universities and China’s party-system …