Graeme Smith
![Graeme Smith](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/ANU-252.jpg)
Biography
Publications
Dr Graeme Smith hosts The Little Red Podcast, is a research fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University and a visiting fellow at Sun Yatsen University's Centre for Oceania Studies. His research interests include local politics in rural China, China's engagement with the Pacific and the geopolitics of search engines.
![Where did that Chinese police video come from?](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2024-03/China%20Fiji%20video%20still.jpg?itok=EhU87DY7)
Where did that Chinese police video come from?
Like governments everywhere, when a problem is out of control, they put on a show.
![From “poop diggers” to allies: Chinese social media reacts to Nauru’s switch](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2024-02/GettyImages-1935951807.jpg?itok=_UL3i5wp)
From “poop diggers” to allies: Chinese social media reacts to Nauru’s switch
Echoes of past positions continue to influence views of the Pacific Island nation.
![Solomon Islands: cops bearing gifts](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/20211215army8615249_0024.jpg?itok=44SfEgPw)
Solomon Islands: cops bearing gifts
Australia and China offer the archipelago nation a grab bag of policing options that often miss the mark.
![Erasing memory in China’s Tibet](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-1212507867.jpg?itok=fuy-jf9j)
Erasing memory in China’s Tibet
The Chinese Communist Party is employing familiar tactics to assert its rule. When co-opting fails, coerce or silence.
![Boys’ love brings edgy drama to China, and a backlash](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-1185629816.jpg?itok=-yUfaS36)
Boys’ love brings edgy drama to China, and a backlash
As a genre, gay fiction has leapt from words to the screen with enormous popularity, but not beyond the censor’s reach.
![Rumblings along the federal fault line in Solomon Islands](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-181066404%20copy.jpg?itok=3Pm0Hui6)
Rumblings along the federal fault line in Solomon Islands
Reports of China “leasing an entire Pacific island” have again exposed provincial and central government divisions.
![The wisdom of Solomons: Taiwan and China’s Pacific power play](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/26334343569_ec1797f245_o.jpg?itok=IF9UC4Rk)
The wisdom of Solomons: Taiwan and China’s Pacific power play
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare offers an insight on the whys and why nots of diplomatic recognition.
![Tiananmen’s “core” secret in the weeks that followed](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-158661319.jpg?itok=WzEDFhzL)
Tiananmen’s “core” secret in the weeks that followed
New documents from weeks after the 1989 crackdown show grovelling officials set China on a path to today’s lonely rule.
![Closing the umbrella? The verdict on democracy in Hong Kong](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-1042361796-min.jpg?itok=L-ij7klc)
Closing the umbrella? The verdict on democracy in Hong Kong
A case against a group of non-violent protestors will be read as a comment on China’s one country, two systems approach.
Pagination