Foreign affairs

Taiwan’s 2024 presidential election candidates: What will Hou or Lai’s election mean for tensions across the Taiwan strait?

December

By Corey Lee Bell

Note: This article appeared in the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Studies Programme's Taiwan Insight on June 6 2023.

TikTok and beyond: How China’s ascendancy in digital technology challenges the global order

December

By Marina Zhang

Note: This article appeared in The Diplomat on June 3 2023.

The China factor in Japan-South Korea rapprochement

December

Review of Australia’s China Odyssey: From Euphoria to Fear

December

By Elena Collinson 

Note: This article appeared in the Council on Foreign Relations' Asia Unbound on May 30 2023.

Australia-China relations on a solid trajectory. But it could be derailed

December

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in The Canberra Times on May 21 2023. 

Trade Minister Don Farrell took some heat last week for returning ‘empty-handed’ from his trip to Beijing and a meeting with China's Commerce Minister.

Australia-China monthly wrap-up: April 2023

December

Inside the tent: Bob Hawke's ringside seat to China's reforms, Beijing 1986

December

Executive Summary

While speculation continues as to whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit the People’s Republic of China (PRC) this year – making it the first such visit since Malcolm Turnbull in 2016 – the time is ripe for reflection on arguably the most consequential visit in the relationship’s history, that by Bob Hawke to Beijing in May 1986.

Australia’s narrow understanding of China is of its own making

December

By Elena Collinson 

Note: This article appeared in the East Asia Forum on May 1 2023.

Chinese tech dominance more myth than reality

December

By Marina Zhang

Note: This article appeared in East Asia Forum on April 21 2023.

Rising tides, shifting sands: Rethinking Australia’s foreign policy towards China

December

By Marina Zhang

Note: This article appeared in the Australian Institute of International Affairs’ blog, Australian Outlook, on April 21 2023.