Foreign affairs

Making sense of Xi’s claim that the US is ‘goading’ China to invade Taiwan

December

By Corey Lee Bell

Note: This article appeared in The Diplomat on June 27 2024.

Why Dutton is flying in the face of the China hawks

December

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in The Australian Financial Review on June 26 2024.

China hawks predictably attacked the Albanese government for being too soft on Beijing during Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia last week.

In conversation with Cheng Lei and Nick Coyle | LIVESTREAM

December

During People’s Republic of China (PRC) Premier Li Qiang’s recent visit to Australia, business-to-business and people-to-people ties were the focus.


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Are China–Australia relations ‘back on track’ after Li’s visit?

December

By Elena Collinson 

Note: This article appeared in The Saturday Paper on June 22 2024.

The Chinese premier’s four-day visit to Australia showed both countries’ leaders endeavouring to walk out of the shadows of earlier tensions – but their memory lingers uncomfortably in the public and policy debate.

The Chinese premier wants Australia to look at the sun. We fear being blinded

December

By Wanning Sun

Note: This article appeared in Crikey on June 18 2024.

Best foot forward

December

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in China Daily on June 17 2024.

Australia’s approach to Chinese power and managing relations with Beijing: The enduring paradigm of liberalism

December

As China’s economy has grown, its military capabilities have expanded commensurately, and Beijing has adopted a more assertive foreign policy stance. Perceiving its primacy to be under threat, the response in Washington has been a hard turn towards a Realist paradigm evident across both the military and economic domains. The first contribution of this article is to document that, despite Australia being a staunch US security ally and having its own anxieties about Chinese power, Canberra has undertaken a more modest Realist tilt.

Despite the diplomatic thaw, Australians still deeply mistrust China

December

By Elena Collinson 

Note: This article appeared in The Diplomat on June 12 2024.

The potential impact of EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM): An Australia-China relationship perspective

December

Purpose

This paper aims to investigate the multifaced aspects and consequences of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) from an Australia-China relationship perspective.

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