Category: Australian Strategic Policy Institute

The CCP Is Constructing a New World Media Order (Part 3 of 3)

May 30, 2023
Australian Strategic Policy InstituteCCP’s InfiltrationChina NewsInfiltrating the WestSpecial TopicsUS-China relationsWeChat
0 Comment

In the United States, it is hard to find Chinese-language media that are not influenced or controlled by the CCP. The growth of the CCP’s media network has been facilitated to a great extent by the widespread use of China’s WeChat messaging service within America’s Chinese language communities. Collectively, through controlling WeChat accounts, the CCP…

Read More

New Australian Submarine Base ‘Significant’ for Indo-Pacific: Defence Expert

March 7, 2022
Asia & PacificAUKUSAustraliaAustralian Strategic Policy InstituteBusiness & EconomyChinaChina-Australia RelationseconomyIndo-PacificInternationalInternational RelationsMichael Shoebridgemilitarynuclear-powered submarinesSalvatore BabonesScott MorrisonWorld
0 Comment

Australia’s earmarked $10 billion nuclear-powered submarine base will have ramifications across the Indo-Pacific region and demonstrates the “magnitude” of AUKUS in action, according to a defence expert. On March 7, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the government was investigating the development of a new east coast-based hub to house nuclear-powered submarines Australia is due to…

Read More

New Australian Nuclear Sub Base ‘Significant’ for Indo-Pacific: Defence Expert

March 7, 2022
Asia & PacificAUKUSAustraliaAustralian Strategic Policy InstituteBusiness & EconomyChinaChina-Australia RelationseconomyIndo-PacificInternationalInternational RelationsMichael Shoebridgemilitarynuclear-powered submarinesSalvatore BabonesScott MorrisonWorld
0 Comment

Australia’s earmarked $10 billion nuclear-powered submarine base will have ramifications across the Indo-Pacific region and demonstrates the “magnitude” of AUKUS in action, according to a defence expert. On March 7, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the government was investigating the development of a new east coast-based hub to house nuclear-powered submarines Australia is due to…

Read More

Beijing’s 99-Year Lease of Darwin Port Poses No Security Risk: Australian Defence Department

December 29, 2021
Asia & PacificAustraliaaustralia-chinaAustralian Strategic Policy InstituteBelt and Road Initiative (BRI)ChinaChina Business & Economychina-australiaChina-Australia RelationsInternationalInternational RelationsPeter DuttonPort of DarwinWorld
0 Comment

A review by Australia’s Defence Department has advised the federal government against overturning the controversial 99-year lease of the Port of Darwin to Chinese company Landbridge, citing a lack of national security grounds. The review, initiated by Defence Minister Peter Dutton—amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Canberra—was tasked with investigating with whether the Chinese-owned port posed…

Read More

Think Tank Warns Australia Over Iron Ore Trade with China

September 21, 2021
AustraliaAustralia-China tradeAustralian Strategic Policy InstituteInternationaliron oreWorld
0 Comment

A new report released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on Wednesday urges Australia to take action on China’s coal export bans to avoid similar future attacks on Australia’s iron ore trade. “In the event that an iron ore glut emerges over coming years, Australian miners could be susceptible to the same kind of discriminatory action…

Read More

325 Australian-Based Scientists, Researchers Identified as Recruits for Beijing

January 21, 2021
Asia & PacificAustraliaAustralian Strategic Policy InstituteChinaChinese RegimeInternationalThousand Talents ProgramWorld
0 Comment

Over 325 academics and scientists in Australian universities and research institutes have been identified as alleged recruits of Beijing’s controversial overseas talent-recruitment programs. The allegations raise questions over potential conflicts of interest, grant fraud, and Australian research funds inadvertently advancing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military technology. Alex Joske of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute…

Read More