Greg McCarthy is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Western Australia. He was the BHP Chair of Australian Studies (2016-2018) at Peking University. Professor McCarthy has published widely on both China and Australia relations and higher education; including Governing Asian International Mobility in Australia, with Xianlin Song; Indigenising Australian Studies in China, Journal of Australian Studies, (2021); ‘The Regulatory State and the Labour Process’, with Kanishka Jayasuriya and Xianlin Song, in G. Capano and D. Jarvis, Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education, Cambridge, (2020) ;and ‘The Proletarianization of Academic Labour in Australia’, with Xianlin Song & Kanishka Jayasuriya (2018). Higher Education Research & Development, 36(5), 1017-1030. He has recently co-edited the book with Youzhong Sun and Xianlin Song (2021) Transcultural Connections: Australia China. Springer Publishing.