Pressure Points analyses the Chinese military’s use of air and maritime coercion to enforce Beijing’s excessive territorial claims and advance China’s security and defence interests in the Indo-Pacific.
The project highlights and analyses open-source data, military imagery, satellite footage, official government responses and other resources to provide the public with a reliable and accurate account of the PLA’s regional activity from its excessive claims to intercept tactics.
The Critical Technology Tracker covers 64 critical technologies spanning defence, space, energy, the environment, AI, biotech, robotics, cyber, computing, advanced materials and key quantum technology areas. It provides a leading indicator of a country’s research performance, strategic intent and potential future science and technology capability.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Sydney Dialogue is the premier policy summit for critical, emerging and cyber technologies, with a focus on the priorities of the Indo-Pacific region and its security.
The Sydney Dialogue was created to help break down silos and bring together political leaders, senior officials, technology industry innovators and civil society leaders. It aims to promote diverse views that stimulate real conversations about the best ways to seize opportunities and minimise risks and bring more diverse voices into public debates about the rapid advance of technology.
The China Defence Universities Tracker is a database of Chinese institutions engaged in military or security-related science and technology research. It was created by ASPI’s Cyber, Technology and Security Program.
The Tracker was first launched in November 2019, along with a policy report. The Tracker was then updated in May 2021. This update – explained in detail here – includes the addition of 15 new civilian universities and updates to existing university entries.
The idea of a techdiplomacy playbook emerged during 2021, when the Australian Government launched its International Cyber and Critical Technology Engagement Strategy and articulated ambitions ‘to increase efforts to shape global standards’ and ‘to engage with international partners and recognised standards development organisations’. Identifying a policy ambition is one thing; doing something to effectively fill that gap takes planning, coordination and resourcing.
The Xinjiang Data Project brings together rigorous, empirical research on the human rights situation for Uyghurs and other non-Han nationalities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China. It focuses on a core set of topics including mass internment camps, surveillance and emerging technologies, forced labour and supply chains, the ‘re-education’ campaign, deliberate cultural destruction and other human rights issues.
This multi-year project maps the overseas expansion of key Chinese technology companies.
Launched in April 2019 and re-launched in June 2021 this website now includes 27 companies and 3800+ entries. Each entry is populated with up to 15 categories of data, totalling 38000+ data points.
Understanding Global Disinformation and Information Operations.
By analysing publicly accessible data from Twitter’s Information Operations Archive, we’ve made understanding complex data on disinformation campaigns simple for everyone.