EVENT | Immigration: Fact and fiction Join Wanning Sun, Abul Rizvi & @redrabbleroz.bsky.social for an interactive forum to explore Australia's political and public debate about migration, chaired by Vanessa Chan. 🗓️Tue 18 Aug, 5.30-7.30pm 📍UTS Business School, Level 3 Public Space

In a new Toda Institute policy brief, UTS:ACRI Adjunct Prof Mark Beeson traces APEC's evolution, focusing on the roles Australia and Japan have played. He notes that the upcoming APEC Summit in Shenzhen could offer an opportunity to reshape APEC's direction. 🔗Read: bit.ly/4fxZLIg

Australia-China Weekly Brief | July 23-30 2026 The latest edition is out now, with @elenacollinson.bsky.social tracking the week in Australia-China relations. 📖: bit.ly/3Rf44QD 📬 Receive the Australia-China Weekly Brief directly in your inbox. To subscribe, email acri@uts.edu.au.

With 🇨🇳 cars projected to account for 58% of vehicle imports to 🇦🇺 by 2035, Marina Zhang tells Australian Financial Review weak domestic demand & reduced subsidies have made exporting an imperative for 🇨🇳 car makers. Success in 🇦🇺 market, she notes, sends a strong signal for int'l growth📰 bit.ly/4wxbDSb

Wanning Sun will chair a panel discussion on the PRC's soft power initiatives with Jonathan Hassid, Maria Repnikova and Minglu Chen. Hosted by @sydney.edu.au China Studies Centre & School of Social and Political Sciences, 4 August, 5-6:30pm. Sign up now⬇️ www.eventbrite.com.au/e/reshaping-...

Reshaping China’s Global Image

Join this panel discussion to unpack China's efforts to enhance its international image through a range of soft power initiatives.

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On July 19, @j-laurenceson.bsky.social joined Australia-China Youth Association’s #ACELS19 Economic Panel in Brisbane, where he reflected on the resilience of Australia-China trade.

EVENT | Immigration: Fact and Fiction Wanning Sun, Abul Rizvi and @redrabbleroz.bsky.social will discuss Australia's political and public debate about migration in an interactive forum chaired by Vanessa Chan, President of the Chinese Australian Forum.

Following the US @NSF’s ban on collaborations with Chinese research institutions, Wanning Sun writes in @crikey.com.au that Australia's distinct circumstances warrant separate consideration before following a similar approach to curtail 🇦🇺🇨🇳 research collaborations.🔗Read: bit.ly/4wgvdC6

Australia-China Weekly Brief | July 16-23 2026 The latest edition is out now, with @elenacollinson.bsky.social tracking the week in Australia-China relations. 📖: bit.ly/3Rf44QD

The PRC now leads global EV sales and has overtaken Japan as Australia’s primary source of new vehicles in 2026. In @aunz.theconversation.com, Marina Zhang examines what drove this rise and what it means for Australia.🔗 bit.ly/3RMUgxx

UTS:ACRI Adjunct Professor Mark Beeson examines the PRC’s Global Governance Initiative's proposals on multilateralism and global cooperation in Durham University's @globalpolicy.bsky.social.🔗 bit.ly/44zvd3U

Global governance with Chinese characteristics?

As older hegemons increasingly look inward, Mark Beeson explores overlooked Chinese ideas to address major global problems.

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At a panel discussion by @digitalscience.bsky.social & Dimensions, @j-laurenceson.bsky.social examined trends in Australia-PRC research collaboration and policy considerations shaping institutional decision-making. 📹Full recording: bit.ly/4fL9wE8

On PRC President Xi Jinping’s World AI Conference speech in Shanghai, Marina Zhang tells the Sydney Morning Herald that both 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇳 recognise AI will determine their competitiveness and they are using different approaches to innovate. 📰: bit.ly/4fpEdxo

What happens when private tech companies acquire state-like powers without public accountability? Marina Zhang uses Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ to examine corporate control over sensitive data and critical infrastructure. Via Lowy Institute 🔗: www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

When tech giants exercise state power

Spielberg’s Disclosure Day imagines corporations with the reach of governments – and none of the accountability.

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Australia-China Weekly Brief | July 9-16 2026 The latest edition is out now, with @elenacollinson.bsky.social tracking the week in Australia-China relations. 📖: bit.ly/3Rf44QD

In FT Chinese, @j-laurenceson.bsky.social and Wanning Sun examine Australia’s research security settings, distinguishing fundamental research from classified work and assessing the effects of reduced collaboration with the PRC. 🔗Eng translation: bit.ly/3SUlliF

Australia’s research governance policies risk stifling innovation — and amount to national self-harm

share_windows This article is an English translation of an opinion piece published in FT Chinese on 13 July 2026.

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Australia's military footprint in the South China Sea has expanded steadily, but that presence may become harder to sustain under changing geopolitical conditions, UTS:ACRI Adjunct Fellow Frank Yuan writes in South China Sea Newswire.

Australia’s South China Sea presence may soon face a strategic test

share_windows This article appeared in South China Sea Newswire on July 7 2026.

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The PRC’s beef safeguards will reduce Australian exports by around 100,000 tonnes in 2026. UTS:ACRI Adjunct Industry Fellow Murray Davis explores in Perspectives what the measures reveal about PRC policy priorities and their impact on trade outcomes.🔗 bit.ly/4voPyUo

On July 7, @j-laurenceson.bsky.social attended the 9th International Workshop on Building Regional Security Architecture in Asia Pacific, co-hosted by Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) and Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia.

Australia-China Weekly Brief | July 2-9 2026 The latest edition is out now, with @elenacollinson.bsky.social tracking the week in Australia-China relations. 📖: bit.ly/3Rf44QD

Wanning Sun unpacks in @crikey.com.au why some Chinese-Australians continue to support Pauline Hanson despite her anti-Asian rhetoric, and what this reveals about political identity in multicultural Australia.🔗https://bit.ly/3QS93GE

In comments given before the PRC’s July 6 missile test, @j-laurenceson.bsky.social tells @nytimes.com 🇦🇺 and 🇨🇳 have so far managed sharp differences without a 2020-style deterioration - though on the South Pacific, Australia is “not hedging at all.” 📰 bit.ly/4vcRKOC

@j-laurenceson.bsky.social and Glenda Korporaal presented key findings from the UTS:ACRI report ‘Closing the door: Why Chinese investment is collapsing in Australia even as investors go global’ (April 2026) at a seminar hosted by the Australia China Business Council NSW Branch on July 1.

On June 22, Marina Zhang spoke at a Committee for Sydney event on how policy intervention and industrial clusters have driven the PRC's EV rise and what cities like Sydney can learn from large-scale fleet electrification in Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Australia-China Weekly Brief | June 25-July 2 2026 The latest edition is out now, with @elenacollinson.bsky.social tracking the week in Australia-China relations. 📖: bit.ly/3Rf44QD

Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 2016 South China Sea arbitral award on July 12, @elenacollinson reflects in Perspectives on what the ruling means today. 🔗: bit.ly/3RcoF87

On June 25, @j-laurenceson.bsky.social joined a keynote at the China Business Summit in Auckland and unpacked what “great power competition” means in practice for 🇳🇿 and 🇦🇺 businesses navigating a more contested Indo-Pacific.

As 🇨🇳 and 🇺🇸 race to build AI computing infrastructure in space, Marina Zhang tells The Strait Times that the contest has shifted beyond models and chips – space computing could be a "detour catch-up" for the PRC. 📰: bit.ly/4oVEX1v

AI’s next frontier? China and the US look to space in the computing race

Often described as orbital data centres or space computing, the emerging field has become a hot topic in the AI and commercial space sectors. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.c...

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Pauline Hanson’s June 17 NPC address, One Nation’s resurgence and what its rejection of multiculturalism could mean for Chinese-Australian communities' sense of identity, belonging and political choices is examined by Wanning Sun in Perspectives.🔗Read: bit.ly/4eLK9jZ

Australia-China Weekly Brief | June 18-25 2026 The latest edition is out now, with @elenacollinson.bsky.social tracking the week in Australia-China relations. 📖: bit.ly/49INNJQ