China-Australia Relations

The Lowy Institute today launched the fourth in a series of reports on China's secretive aid program in the Pacific. China still refuses to report the details of its aid program, so we went to Pacific governments who provided us with the figures. The reports now cover the five year period from 2005

I have for some time been relatively sanguine about the rise of China in the Pacific. I believed that, like most powers which engage with Pacific Island countries, China wanted a stable and prosperous Pacific region. Chinese trade, aid and investment in the Pacific were good if they

I've spent most of this year focused on the US-China relationship, and two things have surprised me. First, I've been unpleasantly surprised by how assertive China has been this year, especially at sea. I think it has always been inevitable that China would one day leave behind Deng's

Australia is starting to feel the tensions in the 'great duality' of its dealings with China and the United States. The duality line is from John Howard, and is an interesting entry in the important debate that Hugh White has so excellently provoked (or should that be exploded'). Without a hint

All sides of Australian politics agree on the central significance China now has in the Great Asia Project which has obsessed Canberra for decades. The Canberra consensus on engaging China has been remarkably uniform as it has evolved since diplomatic recognition in 1972. China, always an

Sam's post has inspired me to offer my top five foreign policy priorities for Australia: China: ensuring China's rise in Asia does not amount to a destabilising dominance, diplomatically or in the maritime military domain. This involves not only closer involvement with the US alliance, but

For Australia, China has shifted from key bilateral relationship to the regional paramount power, and shapes as a system-level game changer. Kevin Rudd's term offered some markers for the movement in Canberra's China perspective. The Rudd experience of China was notable because his predecessor,

Professor Robert Sutter, from the Asian Studies Department at Georgetown University, is visiting Australia, and he detects a deep concern about China in our national mood. In his Wednesday lunch address to the Lowy Insitute, Professor Sutter gave his reasons for thinking that there are some&