China
China and the South China Sea: Tailoring history for propaganda
Historians in China need to play a dual role. Not only do they contribute to the advancement of knowledge, but they also need to actively defend their country’s national interests…
Prabowo’s China challenge around the Natuna Islands
News has broken in recent days about China’s latest intrusion in Indonesian waters around the Natuna Islands, only to be confronted by vessels from the Indonesian navy and coast…
Have India and China achieved a border breakthrough?
After a five-year hiatus, the leaders of India and China held substantive bilateral talks this week in Kazan, Russia, on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit.Prime Minister Narendra…
China’s cleantech investment in the US: Leg-up or security threat?
On one level, it is unsurprising that Chinese companies are pouring billions into US green manufacturing projects. For most Chinese cleantech companies, aggressive price-wars and…
Central Asia: An emerging battlefield for strategic minerals
The world is becoming increasingly hungry for rare earth elements (REEs) and rare metals (RMs). Of particular importance are uranium, lithium, tantalum, and a range of other…
Analyses
The case for an Indo-Pacific Economic Resilience Bank
The world faces a multi-trillion-dollar financing gap to reinvigorate stalling global development and create diversified green supply chains to enable a secure clean energy…
The US wakes up to China’s latest threat – big ships
In a belated recognition that China has cornered the construction of ocean-going commercial vessels, those ships crucial to secure sea-borne supply chains, the United States is…
EVs to the internet: Can the US and China unwind technology interdependence without disaster?
As our world becomes more digitally interdependent, geopolitical competition is increasingly centred around technology. The United States and China have been unwinding technology…
A Trump win splits the East Asian triangle
This article also appears in a collection of essays, Harris v Trump, written by Lowy Institute experts on the implications for Australia of the US presidential election.“Of course…