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Lights! Camera! Action! A new Hollywood

In 2016, the live-action film adaptation of the popular videogame Warcraft took a dismal $24 million in its opening weekend in the United States, revenue that dropped a further 73 per cent the next weekend to a meagre $6.5 million for a film that cost $160 million to make. It was a widespread flop,

By Shaun Cameron

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Lowy Institute Conversations: Richard McGregor speaks with Desmond Shum, the author of Red Roulette

In this episode of Lowy Institute Conversations, Senior Fellow Richard McGregor speaks with Desmond Shum, the author of Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today’s China.

By Richard McGregor

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China’s digital currency takes shape

China’s financial system is changing. The country’s new Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) – a digital payment and processing network run by the Central Bank of China – and its digital currency, the digital yuan (e-CNY), is expected to completely replace physical cash. Unveiled

By Evan Freidin

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China puts its golden goose on notice

In recent years, China’s digital economy has seemed like a house undergoing full-scale renovation. At this moment, it appears to be in the demolition stage. In a series of regulatory smackdowns, the magnitude ranging from sledgehammers to wrecking balls, Beijing has appeared willing to lay waste

By Elliott Zaagman

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Why the US is quietly outshining China

Xi Jinping likes to say China owns the future and the West is in decline. But appearances can also deceive. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Sam Roggeveen

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China’s communists guard their future from the past

As they celebrate their party’s centenary, China’s leaders remain obsessed with the fate of the Soviet Union and its political reforms. They study history to avoid a repeat. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Peter Cai

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Xi's tech crackdown preserves socialism with Chinese characteristics

Protecting foreign investors has never been a top priority. Originally published in Nikkei Asia Review

By Richard McGregor

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China threatens the West’s primacy, not its democratic systems

Some Western leaders, including Scott Morrison, have begun to describe the contest with China in starkly ideological terms, as a defence of democracy against authoritarianism. They say China threatens to replace the democratically-based “liberal international order” with a new order founded on

By Hugh White

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China’s numbers game harms us all

Speaking before a crowd at Tiananmen Square that gathered in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the goal of building China into a “moderately prosperous” society had been completed. Though without a clear measurable

By Elliott Zaagman

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China’s looming succession crisis

What will happen when Xi is gone? Originally published in Foreign Affairs

By Richard McGregor, Jude Blanchette

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Unrivalled Xi Jinping still has challenges

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review. China’s ruling party and its leader are now masters of everything they survey. But can the economy keep delivering when the private sector is cowed

By Richard McGregor

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Stoking fears of war could serve China’s goals. Australian policy needs rethinking

Tensions in the region are escalating, but trumpeting the coming threat of war plays into Beijing’s goals and risks undermining Taiwan further. Originally published in The Guardian

By Natasha Kassam, Mark Harrison

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After Xi: Future Scenarios for Leadership Succession in Post-Xi Jinping Era

A Joint Report of the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and the Lowy Institute

By Richard McGregor, Jude Blanchette

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Digital Authoritarianism, China and COVID

The coronavirus has showcased China's cyber-powered socialcontrol capabilities, with implications for human rights worldwide

By Lydia Khalil

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COVIDcast: Wolf warriors in the age of Covid, with Yun Sun And Richard McGregor

In this episode of COVIDcast, Richard McGregor, Lowy Institute Senior Fellow, sat down with Yun Sun to get a Chinese perspective on Beijing’s latest foreign policy moves

By Richard McGregor

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COVIDcast: Wolf warriors in the age of Covid, with Bilahari Kausikan and Richard McGregor

In this episode of COVIDcast, Richard McGregor, Lowy Institute Senior Fellow, sat down with Bilahari Kausikan to discuss Chinese foreign policy, with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asia.

By Richard McGregor

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China and the Rules‑Based Order

Seven experts debate China’s approach to the rules‑based international order

By Ben Scott, Nadège Rolland, John Culver, David Kelly

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China's Deep State: The Communist Party and the Coronavirus

China's political system was instrumental both in plunging the country into the COVID-19 crisis and aiding its recovery, but its pandemic management has not endeared it abroad.

By Richard McGregor

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Behind the News: Inside China Global Television Network

Can China’s television network be an effective soft power tool

By Merriden Varrall

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Economic diplomacy brief: Trump turns global, Pacific aid, Chinese tourism, and more

Davos men With the North Korean nuclear threat seemingly sidelined until after the Winter Olympics at least, this geopolitical year is starting in a curiously similar way to last. US President Donald Trump will share more than a dubious hairdo with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week when he

By Greg Earl

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How to handle the finger-wagging from Beijing

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By Merriden Varrall

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Risk aversion in domestic Chinese politics

The 19th Party Congress was a watershed for the Xi administration. Feverish speculation about candidates for promotion the Politburo Standing Committee is over, but their policy significance much as before: enigmatic. There is a natural interest in factional or interest group allegiance. It is now

By David Kelly

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Sam Dastyari and Chinese government influence in Australia

Senator Sam Dastyari has found himself back in the spotlight after Australia media outlets reported allegations that Dastyari gave Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo 'counter-surveillance' advice and unearthed the audio from Dastyari's now-infamous media conference last

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Academic cooperation with Chinese characteristics

I recently co-convened a small international academic workshop with a Chinese university. Since we wanted to involve quite a few China-based scholars and the topic concerned China, I thought it made perfect sense to hold the workshop in China. A number of scholars from outside China were to attend

By Wanning Sun

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How art threatens to spoil China’s party

This article is based on Episode 15 of the Little Red Podcast, featuring Sampson Wong, Badiucao and Louisa Lim Many of my best friends in China are hated by all but their families – they are mid-ranking cadres in a rural county, assumed by their fellow citizens to be stupid, on the take, or both

By Graeme Smith

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No need to self-censor in the face of China

The recent decision by Allen & Unwin to drop Clive Hamilton's book on Chinese influence illustrates that China need not exert much effort in influencing us. We're doing the job ourselves. Hamilton's book Silent Invasion: How China is Turning Australia into a Puppet State was pulled, according

By Merriden Varrall

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Censorship is superfluous in Xi’s ‘New Era’

Tiny children sit in a row on miniature wooden chairs, their attention focused on a television screen showing Chinese President Xi Jinping in full oration mode, in incongruous juxtaposition beside the candyfloss-pink play castle of their kindergarten. In hospitals, patients have Xi beamed to the

By Louisa Lim

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Xi Jinping's state capitalism is here to stay

Originally published in the Australian Financial Review

By Roland Rajah

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Xi, Orwell and the language of Chinese politics

The 19th Party Congress closed earlier this week with the announcement that 'Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era' would be enshrined in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) charter. This eponymous ideological contribution is the first since 'Deng Xiaoping Theory'

By Simone van Nieuwenhuizen

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The 19th Party Congress: A more assertive Chinese foreign policy

In a landmark address that kicked off the 19th Party Congress, President Xi Jinping articulated his vision for China's future. The three-and-a-half-hour reading of the work report saw Xi wax poetic about the priorities of rejuvenating Chinese power and realising the Chinese Dream. Though Xi's

By Bonnie S Glaser, Matthew P Funaiole

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Australia’s shameful silence on Liu Xiaobo

Overnight, a Nobel laureate and former professor of literature died from complications of liver cancer. He had been imprisoned for more than eight years and appears not to have received genuine medical attention at a municipal hospital until recent weeks, when his illness was well advanced. On his

By Elaine Pearson

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China’s National People’s Congress needs to demonstrate vision

Last Wednesday the annual 'Two Meetings' in Beijing came to an end. At the start of March each year, members of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Consultative Political Conference assemble in the grand Great Hall of the People. Every year the Two Meetings give some

By Kerry Brown

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Chinese worldviews and China’s foreign policy

Four key narratives help explain the way that China acts in and interprets the world, providing a more nuanced guide to China’s aims and ambitions and helping to shape more effective responses to China

By Merriden Varrall

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China’s unpredictable maritime security actors

In this Report, Lowy Institute Nonresident Fellow Linda Jakobson argues that despite Chinese president Xi Jinping’s image as a strongman, China’s approach to maritime security will continue to be shaped by a diverse set of actors pushing their own agendas. Consequently, China’s behaviour will

By Linda Jakobson

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China Australia relationship needs to broaden from trade

China-Australia relationship needs to broaden from trade James Brown The Saturday Paper 30 August 2014 Please click here for the online text

By James Brown

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