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An elaborate and lengthy selection process is in danger of being co-opted by the Chinese government.
The 100 basis points cut by the People’s Bank of China is as much as about containing unregulated credit within China as a bolster to slowing growth.
The growing labour movement in China, as fragmented and repressed as it is, offers hope for workers everywhere as an example of organising against incredible odds.
With three billion internet users and rising, a device that turns surfers into shells is a dangerous development.
A group of Chinese villagers has been raising hell over a corrupt local boss – exposing an unedifying contradiction at the heart of the Chinese system.
The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a blow against US influence in global financial markets.
The US has only itself to blame for the growing number of allies that have agreed to join China’s development bank despite American objections.
Australia may be a little late to the party, but the it still has a lot to win as it negotiates its position in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Labor and the unions have decided to play the China card in the NSW election. Such scare campaigns ignore the facts, including that Australia has invested almost as much in China as China has here.
Even for a government that has recently made an artform of policy backflips, the Abbott government’s belated, but seemingly inevitable decision to join China’s proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment…
Treasurer Joe Hockey has indicated the government is preparing to announce Australia will enter negotiations to join China’s infrastructure bank.
The cascade of US allies looking to join China’s new development bank should come as no surprise.
Lee Kuan Yew literally helped put Singapore on the map. Its subsequent influence far outstrips the tiny island’s geopolitical significance.
Once China claimed to lead the way in equality for women. Today, women are warned they will be “leftovers” if they don’t produce children.
The US gravely miscalculated in trying to get China to accept the existing global order. Forced to make a choice, America’s closest allies are joining the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Under the Dome, a hugely popular online documentary about China’s smog crisis, could be as influential as 1962’s US pesticide exposé Silent Spring - but only if Chinese officials allow debate to flourish.
It makes sense for Australia to join Britain and New Zealand in the newly created AIIB, but it’s unlikely we will have any significant influence over the organisation.
Debate is raging in China on what kind of ideas should be shaping the next generation.
Once the world’s factory, China is shooting up the innovation rankings. There are important lessons there for Australia.
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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 Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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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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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
