Foreign affairs

Lessons from Chinese government interference in Australia

December

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in 9DashLine on February 14 2022.

Can China use the Beijing Olympics to ‘sportwash’ its abuses against the Uyghurs? Only if the world remains silent

December

By Michael Clarke

Note: This article appeared in The Conversation on February 10 2022.

Australia-China monthly wrap-up: December 2021 and January 2022

December

By Elena Collinson, with research assistance from Thomas Pantle

Perspectives | WeChat and Weixin? The missing story behind the Coalition's outcry

December

Perspectives is UTS:ACRI's monthly commentary series, featuring a piece on a topical subject in the Australia-China relationship from an invited expert contributor. 

By Wanning Sun and Haiqing Yu

Benchmarking the state of Australia’s diplomatic engagement with the PRC

December

Australia-PRC relations in 2022 - Reflections and projections | WEBINAR

December

The year 2022 – the Year of the Tiger – marks 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties between Australia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Yet rather than a celebration of the bold and strategic approach to the bilateral relationship launched by the Whitlam government in 1972, we are now entering the sixth straight year of worsening tensions between Canberra and Beijing. The campaign of economic and diplomatic disruption launched by the PRC against Australia is unprecedented in breadth and persistence. Beijing insists it has faced unprecedented provocation.


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Canberra, we have a problem: Interpreting shifting American grand strategy preferences in an era of Sino–US rivalry

December

President Joe Biden's assertion that 'America is back' and will embrace 'strategic competition' with the People's Republic of China has been welcomed in Australia as a sign that the United States is returning to a 'normal' grand strategy after the turbulence of the Trump administration. This article argues, however, that this is a problematic assumption as it ignores the question of how American grand strategy choices are made and articulated.

Australia-China monthly wrap-up: November 2021

December

By Elena Collinson, with research assistance from Thomas Pantle

Diplomatic boycott of Games is sign of dumbed-down approach to China

December

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in The Age on December 8 2021.

Review of 'Our exceptional friend: Australia’s fatal alliance with the United States,' by Emma Shortis

December

Currently, the US alliance has a prominence in national debate arguably comparable only to the times of the Vietnam and 2003 Iraq wars. Yet for 20 years, debates over the Anzac legend have been entwined in discussions of the alliance and vice versa. At the same time, successive Australian governments have presided over institutional enhancements to the alliance.