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Détente: Towards a Balance of Power between the USA and China (缓和：迈向美、中之间的力量平衡) – By Bob Carr, Gareth Evans and 50 Australian Signatories

Détente: Towards a Balance of Power between the USA and China By Bob Carr, Gareth Evans and 50 Australian Signatories 31 January 2024 Posted with permission. The original article can be viewed at: https://johnmenadue.com/australians-join-call-for-usa-china-detente/ Former Foreign Ministers Bob Carr and Gareth Evans, other former Cabinet Ministers, former State Premiers, a Nobel Laureate, diplomats, writers, Read more…

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Agreeing and disagreeing: Australia’s critical deficit in China knowledge – By Jocelyn Chey

Agreeing and disagreeing: Australia’s critical deficit in China knowledge By Jocelyn Chey 19 December 2023 Posted with permission. The original article can be viewed at: https://johnmenadue.com/agreeing-and-disagreeing-australias-critical-deficit-in-china-knowledge/ The recent Beyond the Mainstream Media essay series spells out the urgency for Australia to come to grips with our deficit in China knowledge. China is Read more…

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Beyond good and evil: The mainstream media and stable relations with China – By Minran Liu

Beyond good and evil: The mainstream media and stable relations with China By Minran Liu 11 December 2023 Posted with permission. The original article can be viewed at: https://johnmenadue.com/beyond-good-and-evil-the-mainstream-media-and-stable-relations-with-china/ By going beyond the good and evil binary, the Australian media could play a more constructive role in fostering enduring stability Read more…

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“I wouldn’t start from here”: Advice on Australia-China Relations – By Jocelyn Chey (“我不会从这里开始”：关于澳中关系的建议 – 梅卓琳)

“I wouldn’t start from here”: Advice on Australia-China relations By Jocelyn Chey 13 October 2023 The original article can be viewed at: https://johnmenadue.com/i-wouldnt-start-from-here-advice-on-australia-china-relations-book-review/ Engaging China: How Australia can lead the way again (Sydney University Press 2023) reviews most aspects of the Australia-China relations and proposes useful ways to develop them Read more…

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Will Chinese Australians Stand Up for Justice and Fairness, Again? – By Chek Ling (澳洲华人会再次为正义和公平而站出来吗?)

Will Chinese Australians Stand Up for Justice and Fairness, Again? 澳洲华人会再次为正义和公平而站出来吗? Chek Ling (林忠质) In 1888 Lowe Kong Meng, Cheong Cheok Hong and Louis Ah Moy took the moral high ground in The Chinese Question booklet. They were ignored, of course.  It was the time. A century later, in 1998, the Queensland Read more…

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YES for the Voice: A Chinese-Australian’s Perspective – by Chek Ling (支持原住民之声：一位华裔澳大利亚人的观点)

YES for the Voice: A Chinese-Australian’s Perspective Chek Ling (林忠质) 1984 was a seminal year for me. Not George Orwell’s, but our own Geoffrey Blainey’s 1984. In that year my childhood imaginations of God’s own country got blown up by Blainey’s year-long anti-Asian campaign. He was then the pre-eminent historian Read more…

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A Yes Vote Just as Important to Chinese-Australians as for Our Indigenous Brothers and Sisters – by Kingsley Liu (投Yes对华裔澳大利亚人和我们的原住民兄弟姐妹们同样重要)

A Yes Vote Just as Important to Chinese-Australians as for Our Indigenous Brothers and Sisters Kingsley Liu (刘仲权律师) With a population of 1.4 million, Chinese-Australians are the largest ethnic minority community in Australia and our say has weight. From the perspective of that community, an important objective must be playing Read more…

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