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On engagement with China
To: The Australian Newspaper Letters to the editor September 29, 2011 Dear Sir, Geof Raby, Australia's ex-ambassador to China is spot on when he says that Australia is not keeping up with the rest of the world in seeking deeper engagement with China (reported by Michael Sainsbury in The Australian, September 29, 2011). [...]
Asia growth: implications for Australia
Philip Lowe. RBA Assistant Governor (Economics). October 19, 2010 Address to Citi Australia Inaugural Australian Investment Conference (some adaptation by Brian). The Growth of Asia and Some Implications for Australia As you all know, the past 18 months have been extremely challenging. Late last year, extreme risk aversion swept the world. Global capital markets virtually [...]
Party’s default mode not enough
Russel Leigh Moses. Real Time China: The Wall St Journal. June 25, 2010 Russell Leigh Moses is a Beijing-based analyst and professor who writes on Chinese politics. He is writing a book on the changing role of power in the Chinese political system. In Floods, Party’s Default Mode May Not Wash Nothing comes easy for [...]
Two Faces of China’s Communist Party
Russel Leigh moses. Real Time China. The Wall St Journal. May 30, 2010 Russell Leigh Moses is a Beijing-based analyst and professor who writes on Chinese politics. He is writing a book on the changing role of power in the Chinese political system. Russell Leigh Moses The two faces of China's communist party. The Chinese [...]
Australia: adrift in Asia literacy
Greg Sheridan. Foreign editor. The Australian. May 27, 2010 A nation adrift in Asia literacy KEVIN Rudd and Tony Abbott gave important speeches this week about Australia's engagement with Asia. They were talking to a national forum sponsored by Asialink of Melbourne University, the best single body promoting connections between Australia and Asia. here was [...]
China: difficult to govern
Yiyi Lu. China Real Time Report: The Wall St Journal. May 6, 2010 Yiyi Lu, an expert on Chinese civil society, discusses the continued rise of popular protests in China. Ms. Lu is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute and an associate fellow at the U.K.-based Chatham House. She is [...]
China’s private party
Richard McGregor. THE SATURDAY ESSAY: The Wall St Journal. May 15, 2010 Richard McGregor is deputy news editor and former Beijing bureau chief for the Financial Times. This essay is adapted from: 'The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers' "The Communist Party has made strenuous efforts to keep signs of its enduring power [...]
Modern humanism in China
Didi Kirsten Tatlow. The New York Tines/Letter From China: May 13, 2010 In Search of a Modern Humanism in China BEIJING — When Han Han, China's 27-year-old superstar blogger, author and literary bad boy, who loves to drive racing cars and thumb his nose at the establishment, announced the title of his hotly anticipated new [...]
The West & China: over-ambition fails
John Lee: The Australian. March 26, 2010 In dealing with Beijing, over-ambition tends to backfire IN 1981, a business book appeared that proved to be a bestseller for the next two decades. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury advocated non-adversarial negotiation. Key principles included "focusing on the problem rather than the person", [...]
Australia & China: interests and values
Alan Dupont. The Australian. April 12, 2010 Alan Dupont is the director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. Many shared interests but few shared values with China THE once pervasive optimism among Western liberals that China's rise will be strategically benign and a boon to an ailing global economy [...]