ANU Learning Community and Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University
Date: Thursday 22 April 2020
Time: 4:00-5:00pm (AEST)
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Zoom Webinar Link: https://bit.ly/3eBjGFW
The rapid spread of COVID-19 around the world has heightened concerns about the unprecedented level of globalisation that characterises the world we live in. In Australia, these concerns tend to focus on our ‘excessive reliance’ on China. In addition to the increasingly prominent narrative that our dependency on a powerful, rising ‘non-ally’ poses threats to our national security, COVID-19 has provided an additional and very real risk to the health and well-being of all Australians. Accounting for a third of our total exports, the first quarter of negative GDP growth in China has inflicted substantial economic pain on vast swathes of the Australian economy, from fisheries, iron ore and LNG to higher education and tourism.
In conversations between Director of the ANU Australian Centre on China in World Associate Professor Jane Golley and Yun Jiang, director of China Policy Centre and an editor of the China Story blog. Our experts will be discussing the future of Australian-China relations as a result of the fallout of COVID-19. Interested participants will be able to zoom into the webinar and we will also be taking questions prior, as well as during the webinar discussion.
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About the speakers
1. Professor Jane Golley is an economist and Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at The Australian National University (ANU). Her research over several decades has covered a wide range of Chinese transition and development issues, including industrial agglomeration and regional policy; demographic change and economic growth; rural-urban and gender inequalities in education and income; the Belt and Road Initiative.
Jane is actively engaged in public policy and media debate regarding the Australia-China relationship. She is a co-editor of the China Story Yearbook series, including Power, published in 2019, and China Dreams, published in 2020.
2. Yun Jiang is a researcher at the Australian Centre on China in World and Co-Editor of China Neican, a newsletter that decodes China issues with concise, timely, and policy-focused analysis. Her research interests include geo-economics, Australia-China relations, and Chinese-Australians.
Prior to this, she worked for the Australian Public Service for eight years, including the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Defence, and Treasury. Yun holds a Master of Public Policy and Master of Diplomacy from The Australian National University.
This event is delivered in collaboration between ANU Learning Communities and the ANU Australian Centre on China in the World.