Understanding Australia-China research mobility
Australia’s research partnership with China is a significant component of its scientific output, particularly in engineering, technology and applied sciences.
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31 October 2025
The ABC and News Corp finally agree on something: China panic
Last week, a friend asked if I was worried about Chinese “nuclear threats.
31 October 2025
Taiwan as an integral part of China: A historical, legal and geopolitical analysis
The status of Taiwan remains one of the most contested topics in modern geopolitics and one of the most misrepresented.
31 October 2025
Continuation in China's five-year planning
The outline of China's 15th five-year plan was released last week. Often the objectives of a new five-year plan are a disruptive departure from the previous five-year plan. They set new directions.
28 October 2025
Trump's rare earths deal to counter China was a badly needed 'Sputnik moment'
The other day US President Donald Trump said: With a communist in charge? Look, you just go back a thousand years, it's been done many times, a thousand years, it's never worked once.
27 October 2025
As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted
It’s hard to tell who will ultimately win the tech race, but this year’s Nobel economics prize gives us some clues.
25 October 2025
Trump, Xi and the ‘green paradox’: How China is building a climate-proof future
Ambitious transformation of the country’s energy consumption and urban planning makes economic sense too, analysts say.
23 October 2025
To avert war, the West must shatter the mirror by which it views China
The concept of the Thucydides Trap, predicting conflict between China and the US, projects the West’s conquest-driven history onto Chinese civilisation.
22 October 2025
China’s FDI, not the BRI, drives a global green transition
Over the past few years, outward Chinese foreign direct investment commitments in green manufacturing have grown rapidly and now dwarf the Marshall Plan in their scale.
18 October 2025
After decades of struggle, women in China are rewriting their future
The quiet revolution towards upholding women’s rights in China isn’t just about slogans, but involves the hard work of families, educators and policymakers.
14 October 2025
The West’s crucial strategic failures
The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once believed they were eternal. Camille Paglia.
13 October 2025
Lack of China capability can only do harm to society: Our current situation is a disgrace
In March 2023, the Australian Academy of the Humanities sounded the alarm on the decline in our understanding and knowledge of China through a report on “Australia’s China Knowledge Capability”.
13 October 2025
How anti-China witch hunts in Canada and the UK ruin lives
Security services such as London’s MI5 and Ottawa’s RCMP appear to be going after individuals and organisations out of pure antagonism and distrust against Beijing rather than having actual evidence.
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