Learning in the grey zone: how democracies can meet the authoritarian challenge
MATTHEW SUSSEX | Innovation by authoritarian nations in the ‘grey zone’ is becoming one of the most serious challenges facing contemporary democracies. It has… Read More
Region-China and North East Asia
Bringing the grey zone into focus
PETER LAYTON | Australia’s 2020 Defence Strategic Update was, by the standards of such publications, a hard-hitting document. It had a particularly… Read More
China’s attitude to outsiders plummets
The rapid dismemberment of Hong Kong’s lively and internationally facing culture points to a bigger story. That is, that the same suspicious attitude to the… Read More
The inclusive institutional balancing of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation
Among the internal players in the Mekong region, Thailand is the most powerful and the most proactive. In contrast, Vietnam does not have a Vietnamese-led… Read More
Chinese power: The new international dynamic | A summary
How the rest of the world responds to what is happening in the People’s Republic of China, is the critical question of our time. How… Read More
Australia’s closed border is costing the economy $36.5 million a day
Australia doesn’t expect to reopen its international borders until well into 2022. The border has been closed since March 2020. That decision has been instrumental… Read More
Don’t blame us, it’s Beijing forcing a new world order
The public discussion about Australia-China relations has taken such a toxic turn in recent months that some of our savviest and most sound China experts… Read More
Australia has more to lose in a human rights ‘face off’ with China
China is stepping up human rights accusations against Australia following numerous condemnations Australia has made on the same grounds. Before intensifying criticisms of China’s human… Read More
Oxen Are More Reliable Then Rats: A Personal Reflection
Most of us were probably happy to farewell the Year of the Rat (2020). I know I was. By any standard it was an awful… Read More
Best Biden bide his time on China
Democracies usually get out of a pickle by changing their government and starting afresh. In 2021 the Biden Administration will get to work on reviving… Read More
