{"id":63129,"date":"2021-03-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=63129"},"modified":"2021-03-12T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:42:24","slug":"policy-gun-and-money-australias-covid-19-inquiry-chinas-taiwan-strategy-and-the-demise-of-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/policy-gun-and-money-australias-covid-19-inquiry-chinas-taiwan-strategy-and-the-demise-of-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy, Gun and Money: Australia\u2019s Covid-19 inquiry, China\u2019s Taiwan strategy and the demise of Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In May last year, the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade adopted an inquiry into the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic. Committee chair\u00a0 and Liberal senator David Fawcett joins The Strategist<\/em>\u2019s Brendan Nicholson to discuss the key findings and recommendations of the inquiry\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

Next, ASPI\u2019s Michael Shoebridge speaks to Oriana Skylar Mastro of Stanford University\u2019s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies about China\u2019s thinking around Taiwan and its growing confidence when it comes to foreign policy.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch China senior researcher Maya Wang then joins ASPI\u2019s Nathan Attrill to discuss Beijing\u2019s Hong Kong national security law, the latest arrests under the law and its wider impacts on pro-democracy Hong Kongers.<\/p>\n