Foreign affairs

The latest developments in Australia-China relations in August 2018 by Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney (UTS). 

On August 24 2018 Scott Morrison was elected leader of the Liberal Party by a party-room vote and sworn in as Australia’s 30th Prime Minister.

Mr Morrison was Treasurer from September 21 2015-August 23 2018. He visited China at least twice in that capacity, most recently in September 2017 to participate in the third Strategic Economic Dialogue in Beijing, the highest level bilateral economic meeting between Australia and China.[1]

By James Laurenceson 

Note: This article appeared in the Australian Financial Review on August 14 2018.

By Bob Carr

Note: This article appeared in the Australian on August 14 2018.

Australia was 'unimaginable' without the dynamic presence of Chinese-Australians. Those were the words of Malcolm Turnbull last week, resetting the rhetoric of Australia-China relations.

By Bob Carr

Note: This article appeared in the South China Morning Post on August 11 2018.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was always going to do it. It was a matter of language and timing.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on August 7 delivered a speech to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) which seemed to continue the process of softening some of the sharper rhetoric that had been deployed in public treatment of the Australia-China bilateral relationship since early 2017.[1]  

The latest developments in Australia-China relations in July 2018 by Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney (UTS). 

By Simone van Niewenhuizen

Note: This article appeared as part of a ChinaFile conversation on August 1 2018.

By Simone van Nieuwenhuizen

Note: This article appeared in the Lowy Institute's blog, The Interpreter, on August 1 2018.

The Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney welcomed Dr Alexey Muraviev, Associate Professor of National Security and Strategic Studies at Curtin University, on August 16 2018 to discuss Russia’s projection in the Asia-Pacific region and its relationship with China.