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Peter Hartcher

Book Review: Red Zone – China's Challenge and Australia's Future

Peter Hartcher’s new book provides a forensic analysis of the deterioration in the Australia-China relationship, with insights and insider information, writes John West. Read more...
Chinese President Xi Delivers Remarks at a State Luncheon in His Honor at the State Department

Two fragile superpowers struggle for dominance

The prospects for a stable relationship between the US and China based on confidence and competitive interdependence look very slim, writes John West.
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Kishore Mahbubani and Ian Bremmer at Asia Society New York 6

Book Review: Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

Kishore Mahbubani challenges America to think the unthinkable -- that China might win! Read more...
Huawei

China’s innovation dilemma

Tech advances have been impressive, but constraints on business productivity and imagination are a major obstacle, writes John West.
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Treni a Yangon - Yangon Railways

Book Review: Rivers of Iron - Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia

Rivers of Iron shines a lot of new light on today’s China, and it should be required reading for all China-watchers and scholars, according to John West.
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Book Review: The Invention of China

According to Bill Hayton, the modern Chinese state was constructed, or “invented,” at the end of the Qing Dynasty, based on Western ideas of nation, race, history, and territory. Read more...
Opera House - 2016

Clouds of precarity brewing over Australia

Australia faces an uncertain economic future if it does not successfully reduce its dependence on China, and resources. Read more...
Chinatown, Sydney

The end of Australia’s China boom shouldn’t be such a surprise

Australians have never been much good at admitting the good times will end, argues Michael Shoebridge.
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Dr. Geoff Raby at Gala Dinner

Book Review: China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order

Australia’s very future could be threatened by the deterioration in relations with China. A former Australian ambassador offers some new thinking and clear advice for salvaging the situation. Read more...
Chinese economy

Book Review - China: The Bubble That Never Pops

One of the great puzzles is why China's bubble economy has never popped. Read more...
The Effect of China & US Trade War on Iran:

Book Review: Superpower Showdown

The US/China relationship — arguably the most important in the world — is on a downward spiral.  The authors of Superpower Showdown describe it as a “romance gone bad”, as John West reviews.
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Minxin Pei and Elizabeth Economy

China’s Coming Upheaval

Minxin Pei's Foreign Affairs' article, "China’s Coming Upheaval: Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping", is certainly worth a read, writes John West
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'Maybe we'll have to give that a shot': Trump says lifetime presidency for Xi Jinping is 'great'

The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order

In their Foreign Affairs article, Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi argue that China Is Maneuvering for International Leadership as the United States Falters.
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Taiwan

Is Taiwan the Next Hong Kong?

In their Foreign Affairs' article, Michael Green and Evan Medeiros argue that China is Testing the Limits of Impunity.
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Trump Xi Jinping

Geopolitics in a post-pandemic world -- Podcast

Neither the US nor China have come out of Covid-19 very well.  We need more time to work out who comes out on top, if either indeed do.  They are both losers at the moment.
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Xi Jinping

Do middle powers have a China dilemma?

Andrew Peaple moderates a feisty debate between Kerry Brown and Matthew Henderson, on how middle powers should deal with the rise of China.
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People's Republic of China former Vice-President Xi Jinping. Xi was elected as the new leader of the Communist Party of China along with the new Central Committee.

Book Review: Hidden Hand

The Chinese Communist Party’s global influence operations are undermining Western democratic institutions, as highlighted in the "Hidden Hand", writes John West. Read more...
China's Migrant Workers

Book Review: What’s holding China’s economy back?

The CCP’s discriminatory hukou system is a great obstacle to changing from world’s factory to a service-driven economy, writes John West.
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Kim Jong-un visiting Berlin.

Book Review: China–North Korea Relations: Between Development and Security

China’s developmental peace approach to North Korea reads like a soft carrot and stick approach, writes John West. Read more...