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

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July 30, 2021  —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Arguing for Socialism — Socialists are not the only ones who talk about a new cold war between the US and China. It is becoming a commonplace in the mainstream media. But we have an explanation for it. All the endless propaganda and punitive measures against China are part of a campaign by Western imperialism, principally the United States, to isolate and contain China and reassert Washington’s hitherto uncontested hegemony — economically, militarily and politically. Despite its enormous power, the...

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.