Biography

Pinghan Chua

LTCOL

Lieutenant-Colonel Pinghan Chua is an Army intelligence officer and the current Commanding Officer of the Defence Force School of Languages. He discovered his love of politics while avoiding maths and the sciences: his favourite subject in high school was Legal Studies and he majored in Politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy, graduating with honours in that subject. Pinghan is grateful to the many wise (and patient) teachers, tutors, friends and authors that have shaped and tempered his thinking over the years. He is a classical liberalist by orientation, and his most-admired political leader is Abraham Lincoln.