China plans to create a credit reporting system that ranks people on trustworthiness using a all kinds of data, from finances to Facebook. Sound far-fetched? It’s happening in the US too.
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China has been spreading its wealth around to increase its influence, but what can the recipients of its largesse learn from its actions in Africa?
If there is one thing that the new administration of Malcolm Turnbull can be confident about, it’s that dealing with China is not going to get any easier. Despite our new prime minister taking a decidedly…
South Africa’s withdrawal from the ICC could have mere symbolic value. The country will continue to have obligations to binding decisions taken by the UN Security Council – including those pertaining to the court.
In the summer of 2007, in a bizarre incident shown live on Russian television, scientists accompanied by a couple of senior politicians descended 4,300 meters to the floor of the Arctic Ocean in two Mir…
Only a few coal producers are undertaking risk assessments about the danger of coal assets becoming “stranded”, or unviable.
By sailing a destroyer close to an artificial island in the South China Sea, the US is challenging China’s claim to the waterway. At stake are trade routes worth billions of dollars.
Chinese universities have started to rise up the world university rankings, increase their investment in research and grow their numbers of international student. Should Australia be worried?
An often ignored political role devised in 1571 tells you all you need to know about who will benefit as new power plants are built.
China’s population policy helped more women into university, creating a generation with higher aspirations.
China’s transition to a consumer-based economy offers opportunities for private investors, but more financial reform is needed to open them up.
Recent headlines suggesting the yuan is on the verge of becoming an international currency stray far from reality.
As China moves towards a ‘new normal’ on economic growth, it will use its five-year plan to promote sustainable growth.
Enforcing the birth control policy left millions of children with no identity.
The move to a ‘two-child policy’ is unlikely to boost population growth, which has been stalling for years now.
As the oil price crisis deepens, Angolans are beginning to ask what actually happened to the glut of oil dollars. Very little has come from the oil boom of 2004-14.
A Chinese company deducts 5-10% of employees wages’ and gives the money to their parents – it’s filial piety in action.
What makes Ai Wei Wei so powerful? Critics say if he didn’t exist, he’d need to be invented: an artist who’s combined his life and art into a politically charged performance that helps define how we see modern China.
China’s economy has continued to slow despite efforts by its leaders to give it a boost, which is very bad news for an increasingly dependent Africa.
The US and China may have competing ambitions for the Asia-Pacific in the shape of the TPP and AIIB, but they may not be as incompatible as we have first believed.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
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Director of China-Indonesia Desk, Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS)
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Faculty (Japan Campus), Temple University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Interim Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, International Law; Asian Business Law, Monash University
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Professor and Associate Dean (Education), University of Nottingham
