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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 en...

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 t...

UN Asia Pacific Business Forum raises sustainability risks

Managing environmental risk is now a critical component of doing business in the Asia Pacific says UN Business Forum Chair, David Morris

Australia - China geopolitics and the South Pacific

Australia and China have built a significant level of interdependence, with their economies deeply integrated and growing people-to-peopl...

To see the future, look at Shenzhen

“I make robots” said the sharply dressed young man. We had arrived at the same time to an event celebrating forty years of China’s “open...

A remote Pacific Island faces up to China

In the tiny Pacific island of Yap, when it was time for a girl to become a woman she would go to a special house in the forest for four m...

A Hong Kong day

Hong Kong is a truly global city. As a result of its unique history it is both Chinese and yet different from everywhere else in China. I...

Hungary’s China Hedge

I currently live between Beijing and Budapest, between two countries that are deeply misunderstood in the wider world. Both have had ver...

Keeping but not Making Peace: the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus

The Cyprus problem, still unresolved a quarter of a century since I wrote this analysis of the UN peacekeeping force, originally publishe...

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