Concessional loans account for more than half of Chinese foreign aid (China State Council 2014) and are currently in the spotlight. The Trump Administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy
The Australian Government has just effectively banned Huawei from participating in the building of the country’s next-generation 5G mobile network.
A joint media release by the Departments of Home Affairs and Communications states that “the government considers that the involvement of vendors who are likely to be subject to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government that conflict with Australian law, may risk failure by the carrier to adequately protect a 5G network from unauthorised access or interference.”
Benjamin Zala, ‘Taking the Potential Costs of the Quad Seriously’, in Andrew Carr, ed., Debating the Quad, Centre of Gravity series 39, Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU,
