ASPI: The politics of South Pacific riots
A riot in a South Pacific city is a political act as well as a spree of violence and looting.
ASPI: Beijing’s plan to crush Taiwan under the ‘wheels of history’
The smoke has cleared from China’s military exercises in the Taiwan Strait last month, and the sequence of events highlights some of the realities of... MORE
ASPI: Seeing the CCP’s external influence work through Beijing’s eyes
The Chinese government’s aggression towards Taiwan has highlighted the range of powers and tools it wields.
ASPI: Cold War offers clues about China’s plans for the Indian Ocean
A recent study published by the US Army War College looks at how geography constrained the Soviet military presence in the Indian Ocean and the... MORE
ASPI: China’s information operations are silencing and influencing global audiences on Xinjiang
The Chinese Communist Party is using social media and disinformation campaigns to project its preferred narratives about Xinjiang and influence unwitting audiences around the globe.... MORE
ASPI: The Chinese Communist Party’s overseas influence operations seek to alter the Xinjiang narrative
Over the last decade the free world has watched the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with growing alarm. Its use... MORE
ASPI: Close encounters of the PLA kind: Xi shows the South Pacific its future
The 26 May incident where a Chinese fighter aircraft fired flares and chaff at an Australian maritime patrol aircraft in international airspace above the South... MORE
ASPI: China’s messaging on the Ukraine conflict
In the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, social media posts by Chinese diplomats on US platforms almost exclusively blamed the US, NATO and... MORE
ASPI: China in the Pacific: from ‘friendship’ to strategically placed ports and airfields
In the Xi Jinping era, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (commonly known as the Friendship Association, or Youxie) promotes the Belt... MORE
ASPI: Understanding global disinformation and information operations
Our analysis demonstrates that there’s a proliferation of state actors willing to deploy information operations targeting their own populations, as well as those of their... MORE