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Recordings are now available for 'ChAFTA: Assessing outcomes a decade on', ft Trade Min Don Farrell, former Trade Mins Andrew Robb and Craig Emerson, Glenda Korporaal, PRC Min-Counsellor Gao Feng, James Laurenceson 罗震 @j-laurenceson.bsky.social. Video: bit.ly/42k1bzy Audio: bit.ly/4crRDXW

As Australia heads into an election, I take a look at how the two major parties are positioning their China messaging & policy and how these are evolving under increased international pressure & domestic scrutiny in a new Australia-China Relations Institute report bit.ly/4jFerpo Exec summary👇

Australia’s fragile bipartisan consensus on China is beginning to fray, but the differences are largely in tone and rhetoric, not substance. buff.ly/vaVGMoH

Senator Jane Hume calls Australian-Chinese volunteers for the ALP "Chinese spies": "There might be Chinese spies that are handing out for you but for us there's dozens, thousands, hundreds of young people that are out there handing out how-to-vote cards for the Liberal Party"

An insightful analysis of the Australian Labor Party and Coalition's PRC policies by Elena Collinson @elenacollinson.bsky.social was selected by the Analysis & Policy Observatory last week as the top subject among the other excellent resources highlighted to help prepare for and understand the AU election

On the Australian federal election results, a comprehensive initial breakdown of how Australian-Chinese communities voted and what propelled their votes by my Australia-China Relations Institute colleague Wanning Sun bit.ly/4jSqhwM

My Australia-China Relations Institute colleague, Elena Collinson @elenacollinson.bsky.social quick off the mark with this analysis of new Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley's positions on China (as well as references to new Deputy Ted O'Brien) and the challenges they will together have to manage. UTS uts.edu.au/news/2025/05/s… ).

Yesterday, the National Party formally withdrew from its longstanding partnership with the Liberal Party. What does the Coalition split mean for opposition coherence on China policy? I lay out Littleproud & the Nationals’ positioning in an Australia-China Relations Institute brief bit.ly/4jbnHkA

Sussan Ley's shadow ministry👇

Journalist Cheng Lei, detained in the PRC 2020-23, is profiled by UTS:ACRI Adjunct Industry Fellow Glenda Korporaal in The Australian, as a book and documentary on her story are released this week bit.ly/4judTSM

The 2025 Doing Business in China survey report, led by AustCham China with support from Australia-China Relations Institute (including post-collection data analysis provided by James Laurenceson 罗震 @j-laurenceson.bsky.social) and ACBC is out now. Some key data points 👇

Was a pleasure welcoming Frank Yuan Australia Institute to Australia-China Relations Institute yestefday. Frank is one of the county's best trained & informed young Australia-China experts. Be on the lookout for a major research report he'll soon be releasing on the South China Sea. australiainstitute.org.au/report/chinese…

Join Australia-China Relations Institute for a discussion on China, the South Pacific & Aus, ft keynote by Prof Michael Wesley + new research presented by China Matters-UTS:ACRI Fellow Edward Chan 陳星宇 based on interviews conducted in 🇸🇧🇫🇯🇨🇳. July 3, 5.30pm, UTS. Register: bit.ly/4e1FGZU

Audio, video, transcript and photos of UTS:ACRI's recent event 'China, the South Pacific and Australia: A perfect storm?' with Michael Wesley University of Melbourne, China Matters-UTS:ACRI Fellow Edward Chan 陳星宇, Linda Jakobson and James Laurenceson 罗震 @j-laurenceson.bsky.social are now available: bit.ly/4e1FGZU

REPORT | How worried should Canberra be about China’s security interests in the Pacific? Drawing on extensive fieldwork, China Matters-UTS:ACRI Fellow Edward Chan 陳星宇 discusses how Beijing & Pacific Island countries perceive regional security dynamics bit.ly/4lVPsj1

As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese concludes his second visit to China as leader, I share some reflections in a piece for Asialink: bit.ly/4nR7O6b The tone of the visit reflected a government more certain of its footing.