Following a career spanning nearly thirty years in the Australian Public Service, Allan was Chief of Staff to the Australian Minister for Climate Change and Industry Greg Combet (2009 to 2013) and senior advisor to then Shadow Minister and now Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Penny Wong (2017-19). Allan Behm specialises in international and security […]
How does the Chinese state coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In her latest book, Outsourcing Repression, Lynette Ong examines how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors, from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots brokers, to coerce and mobilize the masses for state pursuits. She draws on ethnographic research conducted annually from 2011 to […]
A new book by Alfred L. Chan This book is the first comprehensive exploration of all episodes of Xi Jinping’s life history and his political career, begun at age 17. The author discusses all major issues including Xi’s legitimacy building, consolidation of power, ideological redefinition, party rectification, anti-corruption efforts, and control of dissent up until […]
The 14th BRICS Summit is set to be held on June 23-24 under China’s chairmanship. This year, the war in Ukraine has added a new layer of uncertainty to the ongoing debate around the viability and relevance of the group of major emerging economies composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Shyam Saran, […]
The diaries of Lord Patten, the last British Governor of Hong Kong, will be published on June 21st and he will speak to the FCCC in the week before the 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong about his experiences. In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try […]
Mao Zedong banned Confucianism after the CCP seized power in mainland China in 1949. But the school of thought has returned slowly to the mainland with the opening of the country during the 1980s. After taking office, President Xi Jinping has openly praised the philosophy and visited the birthplace of Confucius in Shandong. Confucianism has […]
China's evolving relations with Central Asia Central Asia has a habit of being a place where China first floats its major foreign policy ideas. The upcoming SCO Heads of State Summit in Tashkent may be Xi Jinping's first trip outside the country since COVID, while the region was where he first announced the Belt and Road […]
One of the world’s most recognizable Chinese artists, Ai Weiwei joins us for a talk about his recently published memoir and his views on art, politics and the future of China.
Christopher K. Johnson is President and CEO of China Strategies Group, a political risk consulting firm, and Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Centre for China Analysis. Chris spent nearly two decades serving in the U.S. Government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities. He worked as a senior China analyst at the CIA, where he […]
Germany’s growing dependence on the Chinese economy by Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges Germany’s leading car manufacturer Volkswagen sells roughly half of its cars to Chinese customers. And it’s not the only company that has put big bets on China. No other European economy is as dependent on China as is Germany. At the same […]
On the eve of the 20th National Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Richard McGregor will share his thoughts and questions on China’s biggest political event. About our speaker: Richard McGregor is a Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank, in Sydney. A former Beijing and Washington […]
With the conclusion of the 20th Party Congress, it is more clear than ever that the “reform and opening” era is now over. All of the core political, economic, and social aspects of the reform and opening policies have been rolled back or abandoned altogether. Where does that leave the CCP, and where is it […]
