By decisively consolidating his personal power, President Xi Jinping’s latest purge of senior military leadership increases strategic risk for Australia and the rest of the Indo-Pacific. The investigation of two of China’s most senior military …
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With repeated purges, Xi Jinping increasingly resembles Joseph Stalin in controlling the regime that he leads. The Chinese Communist Party general secretary and national president shows widespread distrust of lieutenants. Their loyalty to him earlier …
Xi Jinping’s latest purge of top military officers probably reduces the chance of China taking imminent, deliberate military action to seize Taiwan. But many interpretations of the event are possible, and some imply an increased …
The people of Papua New Guinea have derived no measurable benefit from the resource boom, unlike the populations of all other resource-rich nations. A World Bank study shows that while the PNG economy achieved rapid, …
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has accepted the resignation of one of its own most highly ranked members, former foreign minister Qin Gang, highlighting Xi Jinping’s continuing lack of trust in some …