‘The Age’ reports that Anthony Albanese is trying to forge a middle path in relation to China- one where Australia and other countries in the region jointly pressure the US and China to reach an accord. ‘The Age’ says this middle path “will require ongoing engagement with China, an openness to economic cooperation and constant […]
Labor, Australia and the Asia Pacific
Writing in the Lowry Institute’s online magazine ‘The Interpreter’, Hugh White, emeritus professor of strategic studies at the ANU, says that that there is a deep contradiction at the heart of the Albanese government’s foreign policy. This is between the government’s stated vision and its actions. Its vision favours of a multipolar Asian future. But […]
Europe, Australia and war between USA and China
The French President Emmanuel Macron has argued that Europe should reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting involved in any conflict between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan. “The question asked of us Europeans is the following: is it in our interest for there to be acceleration on the topic of Taiwan? No. […]
Kevin Rudd’s views on China’s ideological tilt under Xi Jinping
Most Western thinkers long ago came to see communist ideology as effectively dead—even in China, where, in the late 1970s, the CCP leader Deng Xiaoping set aside the Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy in favour of something more akin to state capitalism. But Kevin Rudd says Xi has brought that era of pragmatic, non-ideological governance to a crashing […]
War over Taiwan neither imminent or inevitable
Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine, Jessica Chen Wise, Professor for China and Asia Pacific Studies at Cornell University warns that mounting concern in the West at the prospect that China might invade Taiwan risks turning into a self-fulfilling prophecy. She says fears that China will soon invade Taiwan are overblown. There is little evidence that […]