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China and the great global AI governance divide
China and the great global AI governance divide
For all the common global purpose on the need to manage the risks associated with the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, deep fissures about how to govern this new…
China’s dominance over critical minerals poses an unacceptable risk
China’s dominance over critical minerals poses an unacceptable risk
Critical minerals are the world's building blocks for emerging and future technologies. They are essential to manufacturing, clean energy production, semiconductor production, and…
Chinese social media and the 2025 Australian federal election
Chinese social media and the 2025 Australian federal election
In any electoral or voting cycle, misinformation and disinformation has the ability to alter the outcome of the democratic process. From January to December 2023, we conducted a…
Pakistan pulls the data plug
Pakistan pulls the data plug
On Sunday, Umar Saif, Pakistan’s Interim Minister for Information Technology – while praising his own performance – wrote a lengthy post on X, the social media platform formerly…
Overcoming digital threats to democracy
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Overcoming digital threats to democracy
Using deliberative democracy to enhance trust and legitimacy in digital spaces.    
Non-state actors and the phantom of asymmetry
Non-state actors and the phantom of asymmetry
The sunny days of free-riding are receding. In some form or another, most countries have leeched off American power for the last three decades. The preponderance of US military…
TikTok’s unwanted viral moment shows Singapore-China confusion hasn’t changed
TikTok’s unwanted viral moment shows Singapore-China confusion hasn’t changed
TikTok has shot to prominence for its short – regularly viral – videos. So there was no little irony when the platform also helped to catapult views of a heated exchange last week…
The window (shade) seat
The window (shade) seat
My first and most memorable experience onboard a long-haul airliner was seeing Uluru from my window seat on a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 twenty years ago as a child. However…
AI’s Oppenheimer moment: Establishing regulations
AI’s Oppenheimer moment: Establishing regulations
This era of Artificial Intelligence is coming to be known as the “Oppenheimer moment”, where the rapid development of military AI demands concrete regulatory frameworks to prevent…
Manager of the internet, controller of the world?
Manager of the internet, controller of the world?
Review: Underground Empire: How America Weaponised the World Economy, by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman (Allen Lane, 2023) Among foreign-policy thinkers of today, there’s…