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National Affairs Forty years on, a sense of history gives way to alarm Tim Colebatch 23 July 2018 Experts gathered in Canberra last week to pool their views about China’s forty-year record of economic reform, but Donald Trump’s trade war pushed its way to centrestage Books & Arts On the wrong side of history Graeme Smith 26 June 2018 Books | Journalist Scott Tong has unearthed an alternative history of China’s twentieth century National Affairs Underestimating China Tim Colebatch 7 June 2018 Let’s clear up any confusion about the size of the Chinese economy Essays & Reportage China and Australia’s fifth icy age Graeme Dobell 10 May 2018 Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture

International Beijing’s black box Kerry Brown 9 March 2018 Decision-making among the Chinese elite is as hard to read as it’s ever been, and the uncertainty extends to the character of the president himself Books & Arts Up to a point, Professor Hamilton Frank Bongiorno 8 March 2018 Books | Has Clive Hamilton written what one critic called a “McCarthyist manifesto”? Books & Arts Asia’s rise: the rules and the rulers Graeme Dobell 15 February 2018 Review essay | As the regional balance continues to shift, resolving the tension between history and geography is becoming more urgent for Australia Essays & Reportage The undiplomatic diplomat Alan Fewster 8 February 2018 Extract | Posted to Chungking in 1941, Keith Waller found his allies almost as challenging as the enemy

International Chinese policing on show Graeme Smith 5 October 2017 Large-scale arrests by Chinese police in Fiji throw light on China’s justice system International Few bright spots for press freedom in Southeast Asia Luke Hunt 4 October 2017 Is China’s harsh brand of media control serving as a role model for its neighbours? Essays & Reportage Red pen on academic freedom? John Fitzgerald 21 September 2017 Australian universities need to guard against the possibility that collaborations with their Chinese peers could undermine free enquiry International Managing the Hermit Kingdom Jingdong Yuan 7 September 2017 Beijing’s response to North Korea is constrained by its own security concerns