Serving the Party does not always equate with serving justice.

It appears China’s economic policy-making elite (if not always Xi Jinping himself) like the certainty and stability of the Bretton Woods system.

Macron’s credibility as a voice for Europe is high and demands recognition by world leaders, including Xi Jinping.

Beijing has three aims, but it all leads back to rivalry with the US.

A supposed ‘white elephant’ might actually be a source of national pride.

The biggest threat to the current order comes not from an unlikely Chinese order, but from within itself. 

China's threat to the Southern Ocean krill fishery is overblown.

However crudely, Donald Trump identified that China has taken the opposite course to liberalisation.

A leaked Chinese secret memo may be less than meets the eye.

Highlights of debate on The Interpreter about China's influence in Australia.

In the economic realm, China is not only rapidly becoming a superior power, but also one with the same partners as the US.

Australian journalism had a big role to play in dragging the problem of Chinese Communist Party influence into the light.

The resignation of Sam Dastyari is as significant for Australia its own way as Brexit for the UK or the election of Donald Trump for the US.

In some sectors, China’s environmental record is impressive - in others, patchy and problematic with the transition to protection slow and erratic.

Attitudes about friend or foe shift dramatically when countries work together on a serious security problem.

China’s neighbours are not passive dominoes or feckless pawns in a US-China power contest.

China has become an increasingly important player in the heart of post-communist Europe.

The mood in Canberra has soured toward China. That ill feeling is being reciprocated.

Xi Jinping's administration is risk averse on domestic economics, but the opposite on domestic economics.

How long can a mantra of one country, two systems survive?

A run-down of how The Interpreter has debated Chinese influence in Australia.

The assumption that China can be encouraged into a ‘more responsible role’ is ill-founded.

On academic endeavours, Western and Chinese universities want to have their cake and eat it too.

China is forging ahead with a regional counter-order to displace America.

Three domestic factors are likely to drive the US toward a tougher China policy.

Xi Jinping has taken on mid-ranking cadres with twin attacks on 'work style' and humour.

China has not actually taken any action to prompt Silent Invasion being pulled.

The Chinese delivered a masterful display of pure spectacle, ego flattery, and diplomatic theatre.

It is sobering that Indian diplomats are talking of the Quad as a way to stiffen Australia’s spine.

Many overseas Chinese feel the eyes and arms of the Party state all around them.

Both Orwell and Huxley's fears could be realised simultaneously in President Xi Jinping's China.

Personalist dictatorship – in which leaders face few constraints on their decision-making – is on the rise and part of a changing face of authoritarianism in the post-Cold War era.

Xi is not fostering a cult of personality, but a cult of the Chinese Communist Party.

President Xi Jinping's vision should raise alarm bells in Asian and Western capitals.

While China under Xi Jinping is going to be challenging for the region, ultimately the Party Congress is about what the leadership is doing for China.

Australia’s present approach to Belt and Road is not unreasonable.

The Belt and Road Initiative represents the kind of complex issues that will increasingly define the Australia-China relationship.

Australia's One-China Policy requires a familiarity with China's modern and classical history.

Librarians should pause before pulping dusty Chinese journals tucked away in compactors. They may be the only ones left.

China closing North Korean businesses should not be seen as a shift in approach.

How can Australia, New Zealand and other democracies defend against foreign influence activities?

The people of Beijing are the embodiment of flexibility and adaptiveness.

As the Chinese state and its emanations extends its reach beyond its traditional powerbases in the Sino-Myanmar hills, it pays to be aware of the motif of strategic Chinese infiltration.

Almost 30 years after India and China agreed relations would not be held hostage to the territorial dispute, it remains a source of mistrust and hostility.

Whether Wang Qishan remains on the Politburo Standing Committee despite his age could be an indicator of President Xi Jinping's political insecurities.

Anti-Japanese patriotism reaches deep into China's heartland, as I discovered a few years ago.

In response to China, Delhi is re-framing all its Indian Ocean engagements - political, military and diplomatic.

The superficial reading is that China essentially forced India into a humiliating backdown.

On Pakistan, Trump has said out loud what has until now been largely debated and threatened in private.

There is a strong feeling in Delhi that China disregards India's aspirations to be a great power and is trampling on India's strategic space.