Australia should use an important opportunity at the UN Human Rights Council to condemn the extrajudicial detention of up to one million Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China.
Reintroducing one-man rule in China is not only creating political tensions, but also leading to bad macroeconomic policy – and Australia should prepare for the consequences.
Attention has understandably focused on the designs abroad of the United Front Work Department, yet more profound effects may be felt within China’s borders.
For a party with no interest in popular elections at home, the Chinese Communist Party shows remarkable curiosity about electoral democracies elsewhere.
Sweeping reforms may be difficult to swallow for central and local agencies, but the reorganisation of the Chinese bureaucracy has a good chance of success.