The western world’s relationships with Beijing are at their worst in more than half a century. How do we account for the rapid deterioration in Australia’s dealings with China? With Peter Hartcher,described by Tom Switzer as a ‘China scholar’ and David Brophy.
Guests
Peter Hartcher is author of Red Zone: China’s Challenge and Australia’s Future and political and international editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Melbourne
David Brophy is author of China Panic: Australia’s Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering and senior lecturer in modern Chinese history at the University of Sydney
Original recording can be found here.
Tom Switzer is the Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Studies, a Sydney-based libertarian public-policy research think tank that focuses on classical liberal issues.