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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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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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Vietnam

Vietnam's Success in Containing COVID-19

Vietnam's Success in Containing COVID-19 Offers Roadmap for Other Developing Countries according to the IMF
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Clive Hamilton with Lisa Sideris

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...
Australia, India Sign Maritime Declaration to Support Rule-based Maritime Order in Indo-Pacific

Common Challenges on Global Ground: India-Australia Relations

The future has never been brighter for India-Australia relations argues John West. Read more...
SECNAV reviews Royal Australian military personnel.

Australia's military in a more difficult strategic environment

Australia's military muscles up for a more difficult strategic environment, reports John West. Read more...
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...
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COVID-19 a grim reminder that international cooperation needs to step up. Now

The COVID-19 crisis has struck a divided and fragile world, and exacerbated divisions writes John West.
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Hong Kong Protests, Victoria Park

The end of Hong Kong as we know it

Beijing is killing the goose that laid the golden egg, as it imposes its own national security law on Hong Kong, writes John West.
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COVID-19 !

China: Power, Payback and Statecraft

The Great Twenty-First Century Power ‘game’ is afoot, writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Chinese Covid 19 Lockdown Madness Day 1,000,000

Who will 'Win' COVID-19?

Whilst COVID-19 is not a war, it could well come to be seen as the pivotal battle in a much wider and longer strategic ‘war’ for strategic dominance writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

ANALYSIS COVID-19: The Silk Road Pandemic

The 2020 COVID-19 crisis will do much to shape international relations in the twenty-first century, and not for the better, writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

Chinese Europe: Belt, Road and Chains?

Europeans tempted by BRI must be under no illusions that over time the belt will gradually tighten and the road will begin to lead to political and strategic subjugation, writes Julian Lindley-French. Read more...
Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

5D Warfare and China's 5G Digital Silk Road

China’s Silk Road policy is an unashamed attempt to compete with the West and extend its influence writes Julian Lindley-French.                       Read more...
Xi Jinping

Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

By most accounts, China has behaved badly through the COVID-19 pandemic.  Fascinating insights can be derived about China’s present behaviour by looking into its past, writes John West.
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A disaster under-(re)insurance puzzle: Home bias in disaster risk-bearing

Hiro Ito and Robert N. McCauley find that individual economies share the cost of natural disasters to a surprisingly small extent.
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In the economic power struggle for Asia, Trump and Xi Jinping are switching policies

United States Strategic Approach to The People's Republic of China

America's strategic approach to China reads like a declaration of a new Cold War, writes John West.
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Laurence Boone, Chief Economist of the OECD

The Normal Economy is Never Coming Back

We are now in the midst of a very long and difficult transition from lockdown to a return to normal, according to Laurence Boone, Chief Economist at the Paris-based OECD.
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The Kindergarten

Xi Jinping’s China: The Backlash

Richard McGregor's book of less than one year ago, “Xi Jinping: The Backlash”, may have rapidly grown in relevance thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, writes John West. Read more...
COVID-19

Australia, a Covid-19 “gold star” ... for the moment

Australia’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic has been excellent. But the country still faces enormous challenges in reviving the economy and society, writes John West. Read more...