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China
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
One Malaysia, two Chinas
Amrita Malhi
29 April 2018
Asia’s giant is playing an outsized role in Malaysia’s election campaign
International
Domestic disharmony
Kerry Brown & Marya Shakil
23 April 2018
India’s Narendra Modi visits China this week as the two countries continue to grapple with internal challenges
National Affairs
In Vanuatu, it’s he says, Xi says
Graeme Smith
13 April 2018
And the truth about China’s intentions probably lies somewhere between
International
Operation South Pacific?
Nic Maclellan
29 March 2018
Chinese blockbuster
Operation Red Sea
features the People’s Liberation Army evacuating civilians from a Third World danger zone. Australian defence analysts are worried…
National Affairs
Hear that ticking?
Michael Gill
22 March 2018
Finance’s share of the Australian economy is higher than ever, leaving us vulnerable to a growing global liquidity bubble
Books & Arts
What are we talking about when we talk about China?
John Fitzgerald
15 March 2018
Books
| Is China a different kind of democracy, or simply a self-preserving one-party state?
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
The return of Wang Qishan
Kerry Brown
6 February 2018
Despite his age, the former anti-corruption chief looks like returning to a key position in the Chinese leadership
Correspondents
China’s big-city dreamers
Duncan Hewitt
30 January 2018
Urban life is still a fragile aspiration for millions of rural migrants
National Affairs
Duchesses and overlords
Graeme Smith
18 January 2018
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells and Maurice Newman share a deep suspicion of China’s intentions in the Pacific. But the reality doesn’t match their claims
National Affairs
Sam Dastyari and the thousands of years of Chinese history
Antonia Finnane
4 December 2017
The historical record doesn’t support the claims repeated by the senator from New South Wales
International
The calm before the storm?
Kerry Brown
28 October 2017
What did an orderly party congress reveal about China’s priorities for the next half-decade?
International
China in the Pacific: a question of influence
Graeme Smith
16 October 2017
Exaggerated fears about China’s intentions reflect a misunderstanding of what’s happening in the region
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
International
Herding (paper) cats
Antonia Finnane
5 September 2017
China’s conundrum in the Asia-Pacific creates an opportunity for Australia
International
The man to watch in China’s transitional year
Kerry Brown
25 August 2017
In the run-up to the 19th Party Congress, all eyes are on Wang Qishan, the public face of China’s anti-corruption drive
Essays & Reportage
Human dignity and its enemies
John Fitzgerald
16 August 2017
Liu Xiaobo’s message from prison to the West
National Affairs
Remember the nuclear renaissance? Well, it’s over
John Quiggin
4 August 2017
After a three-decade gap, George W. Bush initiated a new phase of nuclear reactor construction in 2002. Then economic reality got in the way
International
Territory trouble
Louise Merrington
12 July 2017
Despite more than a century of negotiations, the China–India border dispute has flared again, this time under two strongly nationalist leaders
Correspondents
Korean wave runs aground on China’s rocky shore
Duncan Hewitt
18 May 2017
The THAAD missile controversy has provoked anger in Beijing and consternation in Korea, and has even dented China’s love affair with Korean TV dramas
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