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"WHEN I was a little girl you amazed me by landing on Mars. I'll always remember thinking, on that great day: you guys in Beijing - you can do anything." Australian prime minister's address to...
Earlier in my career, in a very different world, I lived in China. It was possible, then, to stand on Tian’anmen Square one day and on Bondi Beach the next. I often marvelled at how these two...
In recent times it has become increasingly common for centre-right Western politicians, in order to show their profound understanding of modern China, to quote the declaration chairman Mao Zedong...
Watching many in Australia’s commercial elite talk about China is increasingly like watching mainland Chinese television. Occasionally, informative things are said, but it is also always...
“Where have all the grown-ups gone when it comes to China policy?” exclaimed Geoff Raby last year, in a newspaper piece which Australia’s former ambassador to Beijing still has prominently...
Summer holidays in Australia are traditionally a time for lazily catching up on long-neglected books. In the cold heart of Beijing they are also doing some catch-up reading — at a more feverish...
Rock along to any gathering of centre-right types and before too long you’ll hear someone earnestly declare how ‘the leadership of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher won the Cold War without...
Imagine you are responsible for educating the children of China’s current leaders, many of whom may well go on to be future leaders themselves. What would you teach them? This isn’t, by the way,...