Publications

Underutilised in the Australian Public Service, Chinese-Australians are central to our China literacy and future engagement with the rising global superpower

Both Washington and the Australian public want more sanctions on China. Originally published in Foreign Policy

Originally published in The Mandarin

Originally published in The Jakarta Post

Canberra wants Beijing and Washington to manage their contest, so that the rest of us can get on with making our way in the world. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review. 

London may have to learn the hard way that it cannot have its cake and eat it with Beijing. Originally published in the Financial Times

Originally published on Brooking's Order From Chaos blog

There’s a seminal shift underway in Australia’s relationship with the US based on mutual need and Morrison’s determination to act more forcefully. Originally published in The Australian

Originally published in The Australian

The Chinese president has no rivals or likely successors and fervently believes in China’s unstoppable rise. Originally published in Politico

Amid debates on foreign interference, Australia-China relations and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lowy Institute’s Multiculturalism, Identity and Influence Project conducted a nationally representative poll of Chinese-Australians in November 2020 to better understand their outlook on life in

This is an edited extract of an essay in the latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs, The March of Autocracy, published today. Originally published in The Conversation. 

The West pins its hopes on a rules-based liberal order. But that doesn’t work if the US standard-bearer is dysfunctional. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review. 

This is an edited version of the speech delivered by Hervé Lemahieu to The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies on 22 December 2020

The geoeconomic benefits of working towards more robust growth, both now and in the future, are multiple. Originally published by the Observer Research Foundation

Originally published in The Australian

There can be no return to the relations of the past. The question for 2021 is how to find a new settling point. Originally published in The Guardian

Originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia's troubles with China won't end until its US ally starts more actively supporting a rules-based world order itself. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

One-time furniture maker who fought his way to the top was meant to be different. Originally published in Nikkei Asia

The Australian government’s approach to its biggest foreign policy challenge is not working. There needs to be less conflict and more statecraft. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.  

Pressure by Beijing offers a glimpse of the road map for a more illiberal order. Originally published in the Financial Times

In 2016, the Lowy Institute and the United States Studies Centre hosted then-Vice President, Joe Biden, on the Australia-US relationship

Unlike any other Chinese leader since 1949, he has no identifiable rivals and no likely successors. Originally published in The New York Times