Director @ASPI_ICPC. Author of Internet Wars: the struggle for power in the 21st century.
Joined March 2009
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Happy to have contributed a short piece for @ASPI_org on the recently concluded India-Australia military exercise; Chi helped Ind & Aus develop closer security ties. given current trends, this will likely get stronger. #AustraHind #IndiaAustraliaSecurity #IndoPacific
A great job has opened up @ASPI_org-mine! The @ASPI_ICPC team is an incredible group of super talents and a joy to work with. I had no intention of leaving b/c there r so many great projects in the pipeline, but got an offer a while back I couldn't refuse aspi.org.au/jobs-at-ASPI/Dir…
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10 days ago Indian and Chinese troops clashed on the LAC, the most violent incident since the 2020 Galwan clashes. With @GrewalBaani and new satellite imagery, we have mapped the area and explained the clashes. Read our report at pageflow.aspi.org.au/zooming…
& this thread 🧵
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Always a pleasure to catch up with @orfonline President, @samirsaran, a consistent source of inspiration for taking think tanks to new heights. I look forward to more @ASPI_org-@orfonline collaboration in 2023. Watch this space indeed!
Delighted to host Executive Director @ASPI_org, @BassiJustin and #RaisinaYoungFellow @GrewalBaani (also ASPI) for breakfast. Signed an agreement for a special project that we are implementing soon. Watch this space for more @tanoubi @orfonline @raisinadialogue
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ICYMI 📢
Ahead of the Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) on 6 December, ASPI released 'With a little help from my friends', a compendium that offers recommendations for opportunities that 🇦🇺 & 🇺🇸 can capitalise on at AUSMIN 2022. xitter.cf/ASPI_org/status/159737…
🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨
'With a little help from my friends': Capitalising on opportunity at AUSMIN 2022’ is a collection of work exploring the defence, cyber & foreign policy challenges 🇦🇺 shares with the 🇺🇸 ahead of the annual AUSMIN meeting.
Read it now ⬇️ bit.ly/3AS4bq3
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In my new opinion piece for @NikkeiAsia, I call on YouTube to close their loophole allowing PRC-based creators to monetise content on the platform.
If they don’t, they’re effectively subsidising state-backed propaganda & disinformation.
asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Guer…
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Since widespread protests broke out in China following a deadly fire in Urumqi that many blame on strict COVID-prevention measures we have tracked 43 public protests across 22 Chinese cities, including 4 on Monday.
See this map for details and DM me for underlying data.
Good to see the Senate re-establish a Cmte on Foreign Interference Through Social Media. My colleagues @ASPI_org have produced several reports on this (a great recent one here: aspistrategist.org.au/musks-…). It remains a tough and unaddressed policy space. innovationaus.com/online-for…
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Our 2021 @ASPI_ICPC paper 'Borrowing Mouths to Speak on Xinjiang' is cited several times in this year's @CECCgov report to US Congress.
cecc.gov/sites/chinacommissi…
Check out our key findings below. 👇
Thrilled to launch 'Borrowing mouths to speak on Xinjiang', a new @ASPI_ICPC paper I co-authored with @arielbogle, @Nrg8000, @AlbertYZhang & @DariImpio!
aspi.org.au/report/borrowing… 🎨 by the brilliant @badiucao
Here are some of the key findings 🧵👇
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'A digital identity system... provides people with the ability to control exactly what is shared with whom, and ensures that only the minimum necessary data is shared' writes @RajivShahMDR bit.ly/3Alhu1R
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Chinese influencer Li Ziqi has 17.2 million followers on YouTube.
She's the biggest by far, but there are thousands of other China-based accounts on the platform.
But wait. Isn't YouTube blocked in China? What gives?
Here's how it all works. 🧵
New @ASPI_ICPC report out today on Digital ID. This is a really tricky policy space in Australia because of a long history of failure and overreach. But there is a lot of opportunity if it's well done: more privacy, more convenience and ⬆️productivity aspi.org.au/report/future-di…
Key things we need: 1) Legislation that protects citizens and provides a lot of transparency; 2) Ban attribute vending; 3) Roll-out the scheme to businesses (& in parallel disincentivise personal identity data collection); 4) Give states a say in the governance.
@RajivShahMDR has written a good brief on the key issues that need addressing for this $600M+ scheme to work. Take a read: aspi.org.au/report/future-di…
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Oh, INTERESTING. It will get crowded out by the Xi-Albanese meeting etc. But Japan and the US have just announced at the G20 that they're throwing $100 million USD (in credit guarantees) into finance for Telstra's purchase of Digicel Pacific...
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'Cybersecurity should be made a leadership responsibility, just like all other aspects of organisational culture through which performance is judged and for which there are real consequences for negligence | Read @FergusHanson's article in @FinancialReview bit.ly/3GeA7bu
