Beijing's confidence is palpable, notes Asia Society Australia Director of Policy and Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Fellow Richard Maude on China's view of its future with the US in The Australian.

"This multilayered, global crisis has revealed that the great powers can’t always be relied upon to provide quality public goods or demonstrate true global leadership." - Dr Huong Le Thu revisits her Southeast Asia and COVID-19 essay for Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

"Beijing is not going to dial back its zero-sum diplomacy... Australian governments and companies are going to have to learn how to live with it." - Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Fellow and Asia Society Australia Executive Director, Policy, Richard Maude on China-Australia relations in The Australian Financial Review.

Dual circulation promises "profound implications for global economics and geopolitics" - Asia Society Australia Scholar-In-Residence and Macquarie University professor Dr Bates Gill examines Beijing's globe-tilting strategy in Lowy Institute's The Interpreter.

“China continues to invest in more sophisticated technologies and weaponry in the knowledge it needs to deter and possibly fight a far more sophisticated set of adversaries — the United States and its allies — in the future.” - Asia Society Australia Scholar-In-Residence and professor at Macquarie University Dr Bates Gill in Bloomberg Quint.

“Even if at the snap of a finger we remove the current political impasse, the longer term economic prospects of Australia’s relationship with China are not particularly good if we stay on the same model that we have been rigid on for the last 20 years” - Asia Society Australia Scholar-in-Residence and professor at Macquarie University Dr Bates Gill on the impacts of China's 5-year plan on the Australian economy in The Sydney Morning Herald.

"Australian education and tourism have lost favour over the past three years amongst regional opinion makers - although they still view the country as their third choice as the best partner to deal with rising US-China tensions." - Greg Earl's reporting on a new ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute survey in Briefing MONTHLY, published in ANZ bluenotes.

“The Europeans, the Japanese and other leaders are rethinking their relationship with China and Beijing knows it” - Asia Society Australia Scholar-in-Residence and Macquarie University professor Dr Bates Gill on shifting global sentiment in The Sydney Morning Herald.

“The problem for Australian and overseas Chinese communities is that drive for ideological security doesn’t have any borders. It has no boundaries and the Party is increasingly very comfortable in reaching right into other countries in an attempt to control the narrative and stifle criticism.” - Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Fellow Richard Maude speaking at Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney, quoted in The Australian Financial Review.