Michael Clarke
Biography
Publications
Dr Michael Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies, Centre for Future Defence and National Security, Deakin University, and Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, UTS. He is the author of Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia: A History (Routledge 2011) and editor of Terrorism and Counterterrorism in China: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions (Oxford University Press 2018).
Thinking the “unthinkable” again?
Security motivations alone rarely explain decisions to “go nuclear”. Australia’s history on the question is complex.
Australia and deterrence: Dazed and confused
Debate about Australia's new nuclear-powered submarines betrays confusion and vagueness about what deterrence is.
We need to talk about “strategic competition”
The narrow framing of Australian national security discourse has closed off the range of policy options available.
The Coalition risks the general’s lament, of fighting the last war over China policy
Labor was right to suspend the WTO case against Beijing and should not be gulled into a confrontational stance.
Wang Yi’s fruitless diplomacy in Europe
Beijing misunderstands that Russia’s war in Ukraine – and China’s failure to condemn it – has vastly changed views.
China’s ungainly balancing act with Russia
The promise is a “no limits” friendship. But there are evident boundaries, all the same.
Beijing three-step: China denies, deflects and dissembles on Xinjiang
The UN human rights report has exposed China’s hollow propaganda claims – but won’t stop them.
Dizzy with success: Xi consolidates repression in Xinjiang
An “inspection tour” signals the Party-state’s odious grip on the region and determination to control people’s identity.
How China views “strategic competition” with the United States
Contrasting official readouts of the recent Biden-Xi summit offer an insight in Beijing’s attitudes on world order.
