Griffith Asia Institute - Research Seminars

Griffith Asia Institute - Research Seminars

Principal speaker

Clinton Dines

What do we believe about China’s current situation? And why do we believe it?

Presented by: Mr Clinton Dines, Principal, Moreton Bay Partners and Griffith Asia Institute Advisory Board Member
 
China has had a spectacular surge of development over the last 30 years, and especially in the last 15 years. The impact on the people of China has been momentous and there has been change of an order of magnitude unprecedented in human history. Such change for such a large proportion of the global population has also had an impact on the global economy and on China’s interactions with every other country in the world. The nature and consequences of China’s continued progress is now a cause of some concern for many in the region and around the world, while many observers are now suggesting that China’s developmental model is seriously flawed and about to encounter serious difficulties.
 
Apart from the obvious critical requirement to accurately analyse China’s past, present and future, and the sustainability of the developmental model, is there value in examining the way in which we interpret what we observe when we look at China? Has China come upon us so quickly that our thinking models have had trouble keeping up? Does China’s emergence challenge the orthodox frameworks by which we assess economic development, the rise of new powers and shifts to the established world economic and geopolitical order? And what might all this mean for Australia?
 
Clinton has lived and worked continuously in the Greater China Region for almost 36 years, mostly in mainland China. Early in his business career Clinton occupied frontline operational and commercial management positions in China and in 1988 he was recruited by BHP to be the company’s senior country executive for China and stayed with the group for more than 21 years, retiring as President of BHP Billiton China in July 2009.   Throughout his career Clinton has specialised in both the strategies and business practices involved in negotiating, establishing and operating Sino�€ï¿½Foreign ventures, and in the management and development of foreign�€ï¿½invested and operated businesses in China.  
 
Clinton is a fluent Mandarin speaker and was a prime mover in the establishment of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in China in 1993 and chaired that organization again from 1998 to 2000. In 2006, he was the only non�€ï¿½Chinese person invited by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games to sit on the judging panel to select the design for the Beijing Olympic Medals and he was also named by the Australian Olympic Committee to be the Attaché to the Australian Olympic Team for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.
 
- Thursday 10September 2015
- N72, Meeting  Room -1.1, Nathan campus
- 12.30 – 1:50pm  
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