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Two new volumes explore Australia’s economic, cultural and security relationship with the emerging superpower.

This is an edited extract from China Panic: Australia’s Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering, by David Brophy Things could always be worse in Australia–China relations, but on both sides, analysts see a rift too deep to be mended anytime soon. Leaders of the two countries have not held prearranged talks since 2016, ministers since 2018. Chinese officials now impose informal sanctions and bans on Australian exports on a regular basis, plunging some industries into crisis and spooking many of the rest. Ostensibly, it was Australia’s call for China to admit an international investigatio...

The new book that digs into the weeds of our China Panic, and shatters some of the more annoying shibboleths that abound.

The west needs to make a credible case that its opposition to China’s policies is not geopolitical manoeuvring A protester from the Uyghur community living in Turkey, holds an anti-China placard during a protest in Istanbul, on 25 March. Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images A protester from the Uyghur community living in Turkey, holds an anti-China placard during a protest in Istanbul, on 25 March. Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images Mon 5 Apr 2021 10.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 5 Apr 2021 10.27 EDT “Wholly counterproductive”, was how Newcastle academic Joanne Smith F...