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.
![Hail for the chief: loudspeakers return to China’s villages](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-1089959164-min.jpg?itok=g6sk5dtn)
Hail for the chief: loudspeakers return to China’s villages
Of all the Cultural Revolution hangovers, the return of Party cant via noisy “la ba” was the last thing expected.
![See the difference: CGTN’s Australian gambit](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-862735380-min.jpg?itok=LxbsxblZ)
See the difference: CGTN’s Australian gambit
China’s broadcasters are spruiking, but overseas propaganda is more to benefit bosses back in Beijing.
![CAC-handed: tensions in Chinese internet control](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/Chinese%20internet%202%20MIN.jpg?itok=VdGydz9G)
CAC-handed: tensions in Chinese internet control
State control of the internet in China is a story of fragmentation and arbitrary shifts.
![The Belt and Road’s difficult embrace](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/BRI%20pic%20WEB.jpg?itok=ybJS9YQb)
The Belt and Road’s difficult embrace
China’s debt, not an unwillingness to adopt Chinese standards, may be the greatest obstacle to the BRI.
![The Wenchuan earthquake, ten years on](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-114149133mini.jpg?itok=UxO0mN5G)
The Wenchuan earthquake, ten years on
The 2008 disaster was a marker of China’s sudden illiberal turn and an early sign of Xi Jinping’s attitudes.
![China: magic weapons and “plausible deniability”](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/26246913093_0852c33789_kmini.jpg?itok=sMz-AAJ5)
China: magic weapons and “plausible deniability”
Attention has understandably focused on the designs abroad of the United Front Work Department, yet more profound effects may be felt within China’s borders.
![The Belt and Road to nowhere: China’s incoherent aid in Papua New Guinea](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-524952168-mini.jpg?itok=wms3N0YQ)
The Belt and Road to nowhere: China’s incoherent aid in Papua New Guinea
Ten canneries were to be built to capture more value from tuna caught in PNG waters. A decade later, there are no canneries.
![Getting away with murder: lies, damned lies, and Chinese police statistics](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/5505112214_ee0d184d0e_o-min.jpg?itok=E1F-dTrY)
Getting away with murder: lies, damned lies, and Chinese police statistics
Serving the Party does not always equate with serving justice.
![Xi saves sea slugs on the sea floor](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/3144367139_38103f67d4_o-min.jpg?itok=cy9MuJEi)
Xi saves sea slugs on the sea floor
Exploring the murky depths of Papua New Guinea’s sea cucumber trade to China.
Pagination