Deiant: a Hong Kong women protesting in front of the Chinese embassy in solidarity with the ‘white paper’ movement in China, November 2022. Kyodo Photo via Credit: Newscom/Alamy Live News

How authoritarian regimes are targeting critics abroad

Coercion and repression are increasingly travelling across borders, thanks to 21st-century communications.
Australia’s approach to the debate over Chinese influence should be to carefully disaggregate the various problems under discussion in this debate and risk-manage them individually. Shutterstock

When it comes to China’s influence on Australia, beware of sweeping statements and conflated ideas

China scholars disagree on the extent of Chinese influence on Australian politics – but it may be there are more points of agreement than most scholars realise.

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