Foreign affairs

The big problem with Labor’s ‘Plan to Build a Stronger Pacific Family’

December

By Corey Lee Bell

Note: This article appeared in The Diplomat on June 10 2022.

China’s recent decision to abandon a multilateral security agreement with 10 countries in the South Pacific was a cause for both enormous relief and some measure of self-congratulations in Canberra and Washington.

It should have prompted neither.

Australia must ‘partner-up’ in the Pacific

December

By Corey Lee Bell and Elena Collinson

Note: This article appeared in the Asia & the Pacific Policy Society at the Australian National University’s blog, Policy Forum, on June 3 2022.

A ‘weakened’ Quad?

December

By Pak K. Lee and Lai-Ha Chan

Note: This article appeared in E-International Relations on May 27 2022.

The view from Beijing: No.2

December

The view from Beijing is a new UTS:ACRI series dedicated to tracking what is being said about Australia’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Chinese-language PRC state media news and commentary (principally, material published by the People’s Daily (人民日报) and Xinhua (新华)).

With a new Australian government and foreign minister comes fresh hope for Australia-China relations

December

By James Laurenceson

Note: This article appeared in The Conversation on May 22 2022.

An Albanese government in Canberra means an improved trajectory in Australia-China relations is a real possibility.

The khaki election turned teal on China

December

By Elena Collinson

Note: This article appeared in Melbourne University's Asialink Insights on May 19 2022.

UTS:ACRI/BIDA Poll 2022

December

The view from Beijing: No.1

December

The view from Beijing is a new UTS:ACRI series dedicated to tracking what is being said about Australia’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Chinese-language PRC state media news and commentary (principally, material published by the People’s Daily (人民日报) and Xinhua (新华)).

Perspectives | The securitisation of ‘Chinese influence’ in Australia

December

Perspectives is UTS:ACRI's commentary series, featuring a piece on a topical subject in the Australia-China relationship from an invited expert contributor. 

By Andrew Chubb

Complacency, conflict and dodging nuclear cataclysm: the not so great power politics of China, the US and Australia

December

By Mark Beeson

Note: This article appeared in The Conversation on April 14 2022.