John Garnaut is the author of the e-book The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo (Penguin, 2013) and served as a China correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald from 2007-2013.
Garnaut graduated in law and arts from Monash University and worked for three years as a commercial lawyer at the Melbourne firm Hall & Wilcox before joining the Herald as a cadet in 2002. That same year, Garnaut was appointed the Herald’s Economics Correspondent in the Canberra Press Gallery.
After taking aim at China's “Great Wall of Sand” China’s in the South China Sea, U.S. Admiral Harris has to make a plan.
After Barack Obama's Air Force One touches down in Brisbane, and the American president fulfills the day's G20 obligations including the prime ministerial barbecue, Obama will make his way to Queensland University and deliver the sequel to the heralded "pivot" speech that he famously made to a joint sitting of the Australian...
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An New York Times reporter was expelled from China in apparent retaliation for a report about the Chinese Premier's wealth.
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr is faced with confronting Beijing with rights abuses after an Australian doctor was quietly jailed.
China's most ambutious, radical and consequential think tank behind the scenes at the 18th Party Congress.
If every modern president needs a creation myth, then Xi Jinping's begins on the dusty loess plateau of northwest China. It was here that Xi spent seven formative years, working among the peasants and living in a lice-infested cave dug into the silty clay that extends around the Yellow River. Gradually, the selfless peasants...
As the lure of the market grows ever greater, and the Communist Party refuses to fetter its enormous administrative powers or subject itself to any laws, ambitious officials and entrepreneurs have found it difficult to accumulate wealth and impossible to defend it without currying the favour of princelings or others welded to the party-state. They...
