Recently leaked internal documents confirm Xi Jinping’s high level of personal involvement in driving the campaign of repression in Xinjiang.

This paper argues that China and Canada share many views and interests regarding global governance, in particular on the issues of sustainable development and reforming the existing global governance institutions. However, the differences in ideology, domestic politics and stage of development may constrain the depth of cooperation on global governance between the two countries.

The diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan is expected to intensify in the Pacific in the foreseeable future.

This paper explores how China has strategised its monopoly on rare earth commodities and the impact of that action at the geopolitical level. It also examines how countries such as Australia and the U.S may navigate around that monopolisation, which will also have implications at the political level.

This paper argues that China has a key and, in the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), legitimate reason to focus its efforts in the South-West Pacific: to break out from Washington’s efforts to contain China’s influence and displace the United States as the dominant Pacific power.