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Dec 4, 20234 min read

Everything you thought you knew about China is wrong

Published in the Hobart Mercury, December 1, 2023 Everything you thought you knew about China is wrong. At least that is my experience,...

Dec 4, 20234 min read

Kazakhstan shows how to meet China on its own terms

· The Central Asian nation is taking advantage of its strategic location to diversify away from its traditional dependence on...

Aug 1, 20232 min read

Huawei seems determined to fight on

I visited Huawei's massive Dongguan Research and Development Centre and MWC Shanghai recently to hear how the firm is responding to the...

Dec 21, 20223 min read

Common interests, common challenges: 50 years of Australia-China relations

A half century is a significant milestone. After 50 years, the relationship between China and Australia stands as a signature example of...

Sep 1, 20223 min read

Making Infrastructure Green

Green infrastructure is a great enabler and a foundation for improved incomes, livelihoods and human well-being that will be critical to...

May 18, 20225 min read

How Australia can better address its real security threat - dislocation from the region

The recent failure of Australia to be consulted, let alone to have any influence, on the Solomon Islands security agreement with China...

Apr 17, 20224 min read

China has much to lose as war in Ukraine turns Europe away from globalisation

A view from Central Europe, from interviews conducted for an EU-funded, Erasmus + Jean Monnet Research Network survey of Eurasian...

Jan 31, 20226 min read

Myanmar’s Perfect Storm of Risks on China’s Belt and Road

Because of its strategic location between major regional powers, Myanmar’s participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative inevitably...

Jan 16, 202233 min read

In the middle of a perfect storm: political risks of the Belt and Road project at Kyaukphyu, Myanmar

China’s Belt and Road Initiative features major initiatives in South and South East Asia and beyond for infrastructure connectivity and...

Jan 11, 202224 min read

Contest in the Pacific: China - Pacific islands economic diplomacy

Despite the creation of a 10+1 China - Pacific Islands Economic Development and Cooperation forum, there is no regional Pacific islands...

Nov 30, 20213 min read

A new business model that puts people and planet first?

It’s time to put people and planet front and centre in the new technologies that are reshaping our economies and that just might help us...

Nov 16, 20214 min read

Despite AUKUS, a China-Australia relationship reset is possible

The geopolitical posturing behind AUKUS is unremarkable for Australia but it needs a grand strategy for peace and prosperity

Sep 28, 20214 min read

Nuclear subs lock in Australia's course in Asia

Australia has chosen a side, tying its future security to deeper integration into the US contest with China and furthering its separation...

Sep 2, 20214 min read

Australia and China need a circuit-breaker

Just like Whitlam's visit 50 years ago, Australia needs a circuit-breaker in its deteriorating relationship with its major economic...

Aug 5, 20218 min read

Geopolitical rivalry is no answer to managing the pressing risks of new technology

Robust, zero-trust, supplier-blind cybersecurity would benefit from some global rules

Jun 28, 20215 min read

A zero-trust approach to cyber security

Stronger cyber defences and global rules are better than one-eyed geopolitical rivalry Originally published June 28, 2021, by the Lowy...

Jun 23, 202138 min read

The AIIB: Chinese multilateralism at a time of geopolitical shift

Originally published in Society and Economy Abstract How China will contribute to global governance has become a critical question in...

Jan 20, 20215 min read

Three challenges for Asia's digital future

As the world enters a new era that might be termed Globalization 2.0, Asia-Pacific nations are striving to develop rules, norms and...

Jan 19, 20215 min read

A US-China Green Deal?

The year 2020 was a turning point in so many ways. A pandemic tested our capacity for international cooperation. Our impact on the...

Jan 16, 202141 min read

The Huawei Paradox: future tech risks and unravelling interdependence

One firm has become emblematic of risk in the deteriorating geopolitical contest between the United States and China. Huawei is a...

Dec 22, 20207 min read

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: lessons for an Australia China strategy?

The Australia China relationship prospered while it required no real strategy apart from making hay. Both countries benefited enormously...

Dec 15, 20204 min read

An Open Letter for Open Minds between Australia and China

Growing up in a multicultural place like Australia, I was lucky to have the best of many worlds. We had Chinese food, Greek cafes and my...

Dec 14, 202015 min read

Australia and the Indo-Pacific's shifting power dynamics

Originally published by In Focus, September 2020 and, if you don't have time to read the whole piece, an abbreviated version was...

Oct 26, 20207 min read

Three Seas Initiative: a European answer to China's Belt and Road?

Everyone wins except Russia, from grand plans to bolster south-north infrastructure connectivity in Central Europe: the EU 3 Seas Initiative

Sep 26, 20206 min read

The US “Clean Network” Risks Undermining a Rules-Based Tech World

The new US-China tech war: at stake is who sets the rules for data, communications, AI-driven networks of the future

Aug 26, 20204 min read

Managing political risks on the Belt and Road

This year has demonstrated the critical importance of managing risks. An Expert Blog on Belt and Road risks

Aug 13, 20207 min read

Decoupling: Trump's Challenge to the Global Order

The US is pushing to decouple from China, but the Trump administration’s geopolitical confrontation with Beijing is spooking others

Aug 9, 20205 min read

Global opportunities, but with political risks

China is taking a leading role in world order. A closer look at the Belt & Road Initiative can help to understand - and manage - the risks

Jul 29, 202010 min read

Siege mentality

A case of mistaken identity, an Australian in Hungary and a Hungarian in Australia

Jul 22, 202019 min read

Political risk on the Belt and Road

China's Belt & Road Initiative has generated a discourse of political risks, at the same time as rising US-China geopolitical contest

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