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Griffith Asia Institute ranked top university-affiliated regional studies centre in Australia
GAI achieved a top-20 result worldwide.
The Griffith Asia Institute (GAI) has been ranked as the best university-affiliated regional studies centre in Australia in the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index.
The result is bolstered by the recognition of the centre as a top-20 contender (at #18) worldwide in the latest rankings, conducted each year by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Read more...
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What can a rising China do to get accepted in the global order?
In a January issue of Foreign Policy, refuting the argument by Niall Ferguson on China and the liberal international order, Aaron Friedberg wrote an article entitled “China’s understanding of global order shouldn’t be ours”. Friedberg expressed concerns that “What Xi has in mind when he sings the praises of ‘globalisation’ is not a level playing field but a situation in which China is able to persist in these practices while preserving the greatest possible access to the economies and societies of its open, liberal trading partners”. Read more...
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Democracies in the dragon's shadow
As there are only 4,000 people of Chinese ancestry in India, China faces a demographic disadvantage in pushing its influence operations in India, unlike in the US and Australia, which have a large Chinese diaspora and have no history of direct military conflict with the country, making them more susceptible.
China’s influence operations (IO) have stirred up a global storm, more so in democracies, exploiting their openness to make deep inroads. It is silent, sinister, and deeply disturbing, and has accorded Clausewitz’s concept of “war as a continuation of politics by other means” a new dimension. Read more...
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