The spring series concludes — or does it? — with special guest Yun Jiang, the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) Inaugural China Matters Fellow. Guess what we’re talking about! (It’s not all about lobsters.)
We talk about Anthony Albanese’s recent visit to China, the first since by an Australian prime minister since 2016. We also cover ASIO versus the spies, media beat-ups, trade, Australia’s “fear of abandonment” and China’s “deeply entrenched sense of victimhood”, climate change, China’s app-based internet, why Australia needs a China equivalent to the United States Study Centre, and why you shouldn’t read Global Times. And lobsters. So many lobsters.
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Yun Jiang has been on the podcast several times before. You might like to listen.
Episode Links
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[4 November 2023] The military scrambled aircraft from Thursday to yesterday after spotting 20 Chinese warplanes crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait, the Ministry of National Defense said. The ministry in a statement said that 39 Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft and eight PLA Navy vessels were detected in the waters around Taiwan in the 24 hours ending at 6am yesterday.
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[11 October 2023] Ms Cheng was working as a broadcast journalist at Chinese state-owned media, CGTN when she was arrested on August 13, 2020, accused of "supplying state secrets overseas" — an allegation she rejected.
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[18 October 2023] ASIO Director General Mike Burgess has revealed details of the alleged espionage last month, while meeting his Five Eyes counterparts in the United States this week. Mr Burgess says the spying plot against an unnamed Australian organisation was disrupted before any damage was done.
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The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), also known as TPP11 or TPP-11, is a trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. It evolved from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which was never ratified due to the withdrawal of the United States.
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[15 November 2023] Some messages appear subtle – others, expectedly blunt.
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In Laos, a new $6 billion rail line is driving rapid social and economic changes — and bringing China ever closer.
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[27 October 2023] Has the bullet train project strained the once tight relationship between Indonesia and China?
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[19 August 2020] How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Critics of the BRI accuse China of pursuing a policy of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: luring poor, developing countries into agreeing unsustainable loans to pursue infrastructure projects so that, when they experience financial difficulty, Beijing can seize the asset, thereby extending its strategic or military reach. This paper demonstrates that the evidence for such views is limited.
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or B&R), formerly known as One Belt One Road (Chinese: ????) or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 70 countries and international organizations. It is considered a centerpiece of the Chinese leader Xi Jinping's foreign policy.
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