Graeme Smith
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
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
China’s broadcasters are spruiking, but overseas propaganda is more to benefit bosses back in Beijing.
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
China’s debt, not an unwillingness to adopt Chinese standards, may be the greatest obstacle to the BRI.
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”
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
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
Serving the Party does not always equate with serving justice.
Xi saves sea slugs on the sea floor
Exploring the murky depths of Papua New Guinea’s sea cucumber trade to China.
