Lowy Institute Analyses

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  Big data and national security: A guide for Australian policymakers 

  Hammond-Errey, Miah (Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2022-02-15)

  The reach, impact, volume, and speed of data has changed the way states, businesses, groups, and individuals communicate and make sense of the world. Data is remodeling society’s relationship with government, changing participation in the economy and access to services, as well as challenging trust in social, commercial, and government institutions. Big data is also redefining national security and ...

  The reach, impact, volume, and speed of data has changed the way states, businesses, groups, and individuals communicate and make sense of the world. Data is remodeling society’s relationship with government, changing participation in the economy and ...
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  Jagged Sphere: China’s Quest for Infrastructure and Influence in Mainland Southeast Asia 

  Raymond, Greg (Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2021-06-15)

  Mainland Southeast Asia is a region characterised by a vast asymmetry, between the state destined to become the world’s largest economy — China — and three of the world’s Least Developed Countries. This means the region risks being drawn into a Chinese sphere of influence. The connective infrastructure being developed across China’s borders and traversing mainland Southeast Asia has the potential ...

  Mainland Southeast Asia is a region characterised by a vast asymmetry, between the state destined to become the world’s largest economy — China — and three of the world’s Least Developed Countries. This means the region risks being drawn into a Chinese ...
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  Digital Authoritarianism, China and C0VID 

  Khalil, Lydia (Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2020-11-15)

  The combination of retreating US leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic has emboldened China to expand and promote its tech-enabled authoritarianism as world’s best practice. The pandemic has provided a proof of concept, demonstrating to the CCP that its technology with ‘Chinese characteristics’ works, and that surveillance on this scale and in an emergency is feasible and effective. With the CCP’s ...

  The combination of retreating US leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic has emboldened China to expand and promote its tech-enabled authoritarianism as world’s best practice. The pandemic has provided a proof of concept, demonstrating to the CCP that its ...
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  The Costs of Covid: Australia’s Economic Prospects in a Wounded World 

  Edwards, John (Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2020-08-20)

  After infecting more than 23 000 Australians and killing over 420, the coronavirus pandemic in Australia is fading sooner and with less economic damage than expected. While the secondary wave of infection in Victoria is a big setback and there may yet be other regional or local outbreaks, the economic recovery already evident is set to continue. Reckoning total COVID-19 fatalities compared to ...

  After infecting more than 23 000 Australians and killing over 420, the coronavirus pandemic in Australia is fading sooner and with less economic damage than expected. While the secondary wave of infection in Victoria is a big setback and there may yet ...

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