Rising Giant’s Footsteps Tracked

Rising Giant’s Footsteps Tracked

The nature of the Australia-China relationship will be debated at a unique public forum that will bring together the nation’s leading experts on China, taking place at The Australian National University today.

The forum brings together unparalleled expertise and insight, and includes well known ANU China commentators Hugh White, Peter Drysdale and Katherine Morton. They will be joined in debate by foreign affairs analyst, Greg Sheridan, from The Australian newspaper.

The inevitable rise of China has pundits and public alike keen to know exactly how this nation will ‘tread’ in a world of re-shifted power. Domestically, China’s position of growing international prominence has also raised acute interest in its approach to Australia.

“The international order in Asia is on the cusp of major change and it is change that is coming fast,” said Professor Andrew MacIntyre, convenor of the forum and Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. “The rise of China represents one of the greatest shifts in global power configuration in the past half century.”

Professor MacIntyre highlighted that China’s growing power has potential repercussions which will be felt throughout the entire Asia-Pacific region.

“Other big players in the region – most notably the United States, Japan and India – are all keenly focused on the question of what China’s meteoric rise means for their national interests and the wider regional balance of power.”

Australia too is now thinking long and hard about the changes inside China and how we manage the full array of relations with China as effectively as possible.

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