Charlie Lyons Jones

Is Xi Jinping more Hitlerian or Stalinist in his view of Chinese socialism? The answer to that question is important because it bears on the policy...

The Chinese Communist Party’s first leader, Mao Zedong, once said that ‘ political power grows out of the barrel of a gun ’. Mao’s words echo a...

The effectiveness with which Russia and China have been able to exploit situations to make territorial gains has exposed a chronic vulnerability for...

Welcome to the third edition of ‘China military watch’. This month, we take a look at China’s burgeoning missile and space capabilities.

Welcome to the second instalment of ‘China military watch’, a new monthly feature discussing recent trends in Chinese military affairs. This week,...

Welcome to ‘China military watch’, a new monthly feature in The Strategist from ASPI’s defence analysts examining developments in Chinese military...

China’s longstanding campaign to isolate Taiwan has intensified since Xi Jinping took power in 2012. However, as Beijing has been upping the ante...

The novel coronavirus first appeared in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread throughout the nation in January, and then across the world.

When Xu Yanjun travelled to Belgium in April 2018, he wasn’t there as a tourist but as an officer of China’s Ministry of State Security. Xu had been...

China’s rapid military modernisation has triggered an intense discussion about Australia’s defence priorities, reviving old debates about an...