Renting influence: China in the Pacific, with Jonathan Pryke and Dan McGarry
Episode 15 of Rules Based Audio takes a look at China's interests, influence and intentions in the Pacific.
Reports of a planned Chinese naval base in Vanuatu in 2018 helped focus...
Pacific islands avoid China's 'debt-trap' diplomacy for now
Beijing's interest in the region sparks fears it is making unsustainable loans.
Originally published in Nikkei Asian Review.
By Alexandre Dayant
Globalisation's Next Wave: The Jobs Apocalypse
Episode 14: The mass commercialisation of artificial intelligence, machine learning technologies and automation, combined with outsourcing to lower income countries is about to cau...
Typology of Terror — The Backgrounds of Australian Jihadis
In order to better understand what motivates Australian radical islamists to join or support a terrorist group it is first necessary to get a better understanding of who they are.&...
Our Very Own Brexit
Australia’s Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us
Foreign and Security Policy in the new Malaysia
Malaysia’s foreign and security policy faces myriad challenges, but not much is likely to change under Mahathir Mohamad’s ‘New Malaysia’ framework.
Maholopa Laveil
Maholopa (Maho) Laveil was the inaugural FDC Pacific Fellow at the Lowy Institute. He worked in the Institute’s Pacific Islands Program as part of a one year secondment from the Un...
Ocean of debt? Belt and Road and debt diplomacy in the Pacific
China has not been engaged in debt trap diplomacy — at least not yet
Ironclad - Forging a new future for America's alliances: book chapter
In a new book edited by Dr. Michael J. Green of Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington D.C., the final chapter by Alex Oliver looks at intern...
Xiaoli Guo
Xiaoli Guo is a Visiting Fellow in Australian Centre on China at the World (CIW) at The Australian National University (ANU). She received her PhD in International Relations from A...