Benjamin Herscovitch is a research fellow jointly appointed to the National Security College and the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. His primary areas of research are Australia-China relations, China’s economic statecraft, and Australian foreign and defense policy.
Join Carnegie for a conversation about how local players have fared in three Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian countries—Algeria, Egypt, and Indonesia—in pushing Chinese technology firms to meet their developmental needs.
Despite ambivalence about Chinese intentions in Indonesia’s political and defense establishment, Chinese telecoms firms have successfully used strategies of localization to position themselves as trusted cybersecurity providers to the country.
China’s rise has generated enormous prosperity for the countries of Asia, as well as difficult questions about the region’s future stability and strategic order.
