Professor Jane Golley presented the annual ANU China in the World lecture on Tuesday 23 August. Here is an abridged version of her lecture on the Chinese economy. The Chinese economy has long been a source of contention, with predictions of its imminent collapse pitted against portrayals of its strength and resilience. Is China’s competitive edge dying as it runs out of
Brian Stoddart explores why Australia has decided to follow an “all or nothing” approach to China that now openly discusses the idea of war.
When the Secretary of Australia’s Department of Home Affairs (who wants to be the Secretary for Defence) tells the nation it should prepare for war with China, the Westminster principles of government and governance are clearly gone, possibly for good.
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Pandemic year points to more crisis for Australia and China 21 April 2021
2020 marked a year of rolling crises for both Australia and China that have shaken the two nations and their relationship, a new book from The Australian National University (ANU) argues.
The China Story Yearbook: Crisis surveys multiple crises in both countries during the year of the metal rat, which symbolises a new day , including the COVID-19 pandemic, catastrophic floods in China and devastating bushfires in Australia.
Produced by the ANU Centre on China in the World (CIW), the book is available for free download via ANU Press - one of the world s largest open access presses.
During an event to launch the China Story Yearbook at the National Press Club in Canberra on 21 April, the Director of the Australian National University’s China in the World Centre, Professor Jane Golley, stated that she had received an anonymous “scholarly” article that “debunks much of what you have read in the Western media on this topic”. Golley has since clarified she should have perhaps used the term “challenge” rather than debunk.
My purpose here is to engage – albeit briefly – with the substance of the anonymous paper Golley referred to, in the spirit in which I hope was intended by its authors (the paper, understood to be the work of several people, is not peer reviewed or yet posted online, but has now come to be circulated among the Xinjiang and Uighur studies community and runs to 18 pages). This approach may perhaps strike some as too charitable. However, if Australians are to have any informed public debate on controversial issues such as this one,