China
The Beijing blowback should Australia get closer to Taiwan
Should Australia adopt a more assertive and, by definition, riskier policy on Taiwan?
Benjamin Herscovitch and Mark Harrison, of the Australian National University and the…
China’s view of Henry Kissinger: A political nostalgia
The passing of the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a towering figure in 20th-century diplomacy, has triggered global reflections on his complex legacy. While Western…
Policy Briefs
Enhancing Australia's Taiwan ties
Australia has limited its economic and political engagements with Taiwan due to fears of upsetting China. Is now the right time for change?
How to stop any repeat of the Australia-China sonar incident
Soviet warships regularly sparred with Western navies during the Cold War years, conducting close-in ship-to-ship manoeuvres and pointing lasers against their foreign opponents at…
COP28: A better climate for US-China relations?
China and the United States, as the largest global greenhouse gas emitters, will play a pivotal role in securing consensus at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference,…
Ignoring those forgotten
After Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shook hands with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing this month, much was made of Gough Whitlam’s historic visit to China in…
Rise of the Redback
In August, Beijing threw a lifeline to Argentina, a serial defaulter in sovereign debt, by arranging to pay back in yuan half of a US$2.7 billion instalment of an emergency loan…
China and Taiwan are big Pacific donors – but not for gender equality
This year, Lowy Institute researchers used Pacific Aid Map data among other sources to ascertain how much aid has been spent on gender equality initiatives in the Pacific between…
Why is Myanmar’s new deep-sea port such hot property?
In Myanmar’s westernmost state of Rakhine, the small fishing village of Kyaukphyu has become the focus of a US$7.3 billion deep-water port development by Chinese state-owned…
Sonar reports much more than a blip in Australia’s relations with China
China’s Navy has been accused of using sonar pulses in an incident last week that caused injuries to several Australian navy divers from HMAS Toowoomba during work to clear…