Clive Hamilton and Richard McGregor on Australia-China relations
Publisher |
The Conversation
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Australia
Interview
News & Politics
Categories Via RSS |
News
Politics
Publication Date |
Jun 17, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:41:10

After its calls for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, Australia has found itself targeted by China with sharp rhetoric and trade retaliation.

In this podcast, we talk with two prominent China experts about China's ambitions and the Australia-China relationship.

Clive Hamilton, from Charles Sturt University, has just coauthored, with Marieke Ohlberg, Hidden Hand. The book probes the Chinese Communist Party's ever-expanding presence on the international stage."From Beijing's perspective, they see themselves not in a new Cold War, but still in the old Cold War," Hamilton says.

Richard McGregor, who reported from China for many years, last year published Xi Jinping: The Backlash. McGregor argues for a rather different "tone" in Australia's dealing with China. "We always seem to want to bring on a fight with China, and that ignores the economic equities we have in the relationship. We don't want to give them any excuse to unfairly punish us."

 

 

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