- 21. China’s influence in the Pacific under the spotlight
- (News)
- New Zealand and Australian officials have weighed in on China's growing influence in the Pacific, in light of news Kiribati is set to open up a valuable marine reserve for commercial fishing and development. ...
- Created on 13 November 2021
- 22. How 'wolf warrior' diplomats have become symbols of the threat posed by a rising Chin
- (World)
- ... 13th BRICS summit via video link in Beijing, China Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. China had been meticulously building its influence in the resource-rich nation for years, ramping up investment and building ...
- Created on 30 October 2021
- 23. How Beijing’s New Maritime Rules in the South China Sea Will Affect India and Others
- (World)
- China's new maritime law – in which foreign vessels will have to submit details to Chinese authorities when transiting through its 'territorial waters' – has now come into force. In a classic manoeuvre ...
- Created on 23 October 2021
- 24. Why Taiwan remains calm in the face of unprecedented military pressure from China
- (World)
- ANALYSIS: China has been flying a record number of military aircrafts into Taiwan’s “air defence identification zone” in recent days, heightening regional concerns about the risk of military escalation ...
- Created on 07 October 2021
- 25. Australia has learnt about China the hard way. When will NZ wise up?
- (News)
- ... the UK’s post-Brexit interest in playing a serious role in Asian security. To what end is all this activity directed? To counter China’s assertive foreign policy. After more than a year of Chinese ...
- Created on 18 September 2021
- 26. ANZUS at 70: Together for decades, US, Australia, New Zealand now face different challenges from China
- (Defence)
- ... as all three countries face economic, political and diplomatic challenges from China. The ANZUS Treaty, named with the initials of the three countries, emerged in 1951 from the nations’ shared history ...
- Created on 31 August 2021
- 27. US warship sails Taiwan strait, China says move 'provocative
- (World)
- ... China, which claims the self-ruled island. The passage comes amid a spike in military tensions in the past two years between Taiwan and China, and follows Chinese assault drills last week, with warships ...
- Created on 28 August 2021
- 28. China Discovers the Limits of Its Power
- (News)
- Beijing’s confrontation with Australia should have been an unequal contest. That’s not how it worked out in practice. “Chewing gum stuck on the sole of China’s shoes.” That’s how Hu Xijin, the editor ...
- Created on 07 August 2021
- 29. China President Xi Jinping warns foreign forces who 'bully' will 'have their heads bashed' as Communist Party marks centena
- (News)
- China President Xi Jinping on Thursday hailed a "new world" created by the country's people as China's Communist Party marked the centenary of its founding, and warned foreign forces attempting to bully the ...
- Created on 01 July 2021
- 30. Virologist uncovers missing COVID-19 data from start of pandemic, suggests China wanted to 'obscure their existence
- (News)
- ... that are the focus of the joint WHO-China report are not fully representative of the viruses in Wuhan early in the epidemic," he wrote in a new paper, published online this week ahead of peer review. "The ...
- Created on 24 June 2021
- 31. China unhappy with Australia, Japan statement on reported abuses, warns them to 'stop meddling
- (News)
- Japan and Australia voiced "serious concerns" on Wednesday over reports of human rights abuses against Uyghur and other Muslim minorities in China's far western region of Xinjiang, but Beijing dismissed ...
- Created on 09 June 2021
- 32. South China Sea - the water everyone talks about
- (News)
- EXPLAINER: New Zealand’s navy expects to join a British-led flotilla in a tour of the Indo-Pacific in the coming months, including passing through the contested South China Sea. Tensions in this region ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 33. China urges New Zealand to 'make the pie of co-operation bigger', after Nanaia Mahuta's 'storm' comme
- (News)
- ... China. Mahuta, in an interview published in the Guardian on Tuesday, spoke about the prospect of New Zealand finding itself in the “eye of the storm” of economic retribution from China, as Australia ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 34. Australia cancels two Belt and Road deals with China as relations sour further
- (News)
- Australia on Wednesday cancelled two deals struck by its state of Victoria with China on Beijing's flagship Belt and Road Initiative, prompting the Chinese embassy in Canberra to warn that already tense ...
- Created on 21 April 2021
- 35. How China is remaking the world in its vision
- (News)
- ANALYSIS: It is the year 2049. China is celebrating having reached its second centenary goal – to become a “prosperous, powerful, democratic, civilised and harmonious socialist modernised country” by the ...
- Created on 22 February 2021
- 36. Why the Anglosphere sees eye to eye on China
- (News)
- ... Now, however, the idea of an Anglosphere is taking on an unexpected contemporary relevance. The trigger is the increasingly assertive behaviour of China, which is bringing together a group of English-speaking ...
- Created on 08 February 2021
- 37. 'Will not be bullied': People around the world urged to buy Aussie wine in stand against Chin
- (News)
- ... of Australia”. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), comprising more than 200 MPs from a range of political parties and representing 19 country legislatures, has launched a campaign to convince ...
- Created on 02 December 2020
- 38. Anger erupts as landlords drive out tenants across China; Apple moves assembly lines out of China
- (News)
- ... to move production lines out of China. It’s the result of the US’ tough stance on the Chinese Communist Party. Two Chinese apps are sending the data of Android phone users to China. The apps have tens ...
- Created on 27 November 2020
- 39. PM responds to China's warning it will 'poke the eyes' of NZ and alli
- (News)
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said China's statement it would "poke the eyes" of anyone who interferes in its sovereignty was not "language we would use". Ardern's comments follow last week's diplomatic ...
- Created on 22 November 2020
- 40. Could CANZUK be the multinational alliance we need to tackle China?
- (News)
- China is quickly becoming a rogue state. Recent months have demonstrated that the traditional international organisations that we depend on to rein in state actors that flout the international rules-based ...
- Created on 21 September 2020