Stories

Negative feelings towards Chinese immigrants show our debates do not happen in a vacuum

Posted on 23 February 2021 by Osmond Chiu

The Scanlon Foundation’s annual Mapping Social Cohesion report found widespread negative feelings towards immigrants from China. It has implications for how Australia discusses matters involving China and Chinese people as there may be unintended consequences. Further research is urgently needed to understand the cause of these negative sentiments and how to address this complex problem. … more

China, Tibet and the Politics of Time

Posted on 22 February 2021 by Séagh Kehoe

The politics of time are an important dimension of Chinese state discourse about Tibet, yet one that has received relatively little attention to date. This piece examines the written and visual discourses about Tibet’s past, present and future across Chinese state media in the post-2008 era. The focus is on how these media discourses attempt … more

Messages from China’s third white paper on foreign aid

Posted on 16 February 2021 by Denghua Zhang

In January, the Chinese government released its third white paper on foreign aid, entitled “China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era”. It is worth taking a closer look at the Chinese-language original, which is more detailed in content than the English-language version, to see what has changed in some aspects of China’s foreign aid … more

Neican: Xinjiang, Chinese-Australians, CGTN, Gender

Posted on 6 February 2021 by Yun JiangAdam Ni

1. Abuses of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Tursunay Ziawudun is a Uyghur woman who spent nine months in internment camps in Xinjiang. She recounted her personal experience to the BBC. Warning: the details in this article are distressing and contains references to rape and torture. Gulzira Auelkhan, a Kazakh woman, also recounted shocking experiences. Moreover, … more

Dancing with the dragon: a review of “China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order”

Posted on 4 February 2021 by Vishesh Agarwal

Geoff Raby’s recent book, “China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order”, is a timely intervention. The book provides a clear-headed assessment of the choices Australian policymakers face today regarding its biggest foreign policy challenge — the rise of China. Raby argues that Australian leaders must eschew containment of China as their … more

Australia is Not Being Invaded

Posted on 2 February 2021 by Gerald Roche

Content warning: genocide, murder; contains spoilers about the novel Bruny by Heather Rose In the 2019 novel Bruny, Tasmanian author Heather Rose proposes a scenario where the entire state is sold to the Chinese. The Tasmanian population is then exiled to Bruny Island, off the southeast coast of Tasmania. Although the author describes this narrative … more