ACRI Opinion

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article was appeared in The Australian Financial Review on February 28 2018.

As I sit at my desk contemplating the latest round of panicky comments about China's influence operations in Australia – including claims about how they are supposedly undermining the military technology lead of the US – my attention keeps being drawn to two astonishing statistics.

By Bob Carr

Note: This article appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald on February 21 2018.

By Bob Carr

Note: This article appeared in the South China Morning Post on February 19 2018.

By Bob Carr

Note: This article appeared in The Australian on December 12 2017.

Sooner or later Canberra is going to decide to reset its relationship with Beijing. In one year, or in five. Here are seven things that can make it possible.

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in The Australian Financial Review on December 10 2017.

By Simone van Nieuwenhuizen

Note: This article appeared in the December edition of China Matters' blog, YP Stance on December 1 2017.

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in the Australian Institute of International Affairs' blog, Australian Outlook, on November 29 2017.

By Bob Carr

Note: This article appeared in The Australian on November 24 2017.

While the Australian government’s Foreign Policy White Paper was at the printers, it was being overtaken by events.

By James Laurenceson, Simone van Nieuwenhuizen and Elena Collinson

Note: This article appeared in The Diplomat on November 16 2017.

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in the East Asia Forum on November 14 2017.

In the week prior to US President Donald Trump embarking on his Asia tour, his National Security Adviser H R McMaster laid out one of the trip’s aims: ‘to promote his vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region’.