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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...

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...

The Huawei Paradox: cyber-risks in a deteriorating geopolitical climate

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Siege mentality

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

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

Social credit: the next China risk for business

As China recovers from the Covid-19 crisis, the apparatus of the state is about to be devoted to a new form of social control. By the...

No substitute for cooperation in sustainable development

We need to reimagine what international cooperation would look like, because we need it more than ever to build back stronger and smarter

China fear in a time of Covid

The West is gripped by China fear and risks are catastrophised, yet we must find a way to live with China, to manage risks

It's time for a Pacific "step in" to Australia's council of governments

Australia’s engagement with the Pacific must step-up from donor-recipient relationships to whole-of-government, enduring partnerships

Decade of Risk

We are facing a crisis of international cooperation in this decade of risk. We need to rethink how to solve global challenges

The Belt and Road Initiative and the Geopolitics of the South Pacific

Australia sees the South Pacific through a security lens, China has economic priorities. Might they partner for sustainable development?

Australia's Pacific "step up" stumbles

The 50th Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu was a disaster for the Australian government. Canberra’s position in the regional organization...

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