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Associate Professor Jingdong Yuan
Australia-China Relations and the US Factor
Presented by: Associate Professor Jingdong Yuan,
The University of Sydney.
Sino-Australian relations have experienced significant growth in diplomatic, economic and security ties over the past four decades. The general trends have been positive, especially in the economic area, where the two countries have developed strong and mutually beneficial interdependence. China has become Australia’s largest trading partner and its growing demands for resources will continue to affect Australian economic wellbeing. Australia in turn has become a major destination for Chinese tourists and choice for higher education. Canberra has played an important role in encouraging and drawing China into regional multilateral institutions such as APEC, and the two countries have cooperated on major international and regional issues. However, bilateral relations periodically encounter difficulties and occasionally suffer major setbacks, largely due to differences in ideologies, socio-political systems, such as the Tibet, Taiwan, and human rights issues, and emerging challenges ranging from cyber security to geo-strategic shift in the region, marked by China’s rise and the US rebalancing to Asia.
Associate Professor Jingdong Yuan specializes in Asia-Pacific security, Chinese defence and foreign policy, and global and regional arms control and non-proliferation issues. A graduate of the Xi'an Foreign Language University, People's Republic of China (1982), he received his Ph.D. in political science from Queen's University in 1995 and has had research and teaching appointments at Queen's University, York University, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia, where he was a recipient of the prestigious Iaazk Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He is the co-author of China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003) and his publications have appeared in Asian Survey, Contemporary Security Studies, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Hindu, Japan Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Nonproliferation Review, South China Morning Post, Washington Quarterly, among others. He is currently working on a book manuscript on post-Cold War Chinese security policy.
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