Speech to Asialink Young Leaders
The English language shows that our TV companies buy in, come from the US or...
Speech to AusAID executives
For all the present problems, and despite the limits on liberal democracy in much of...
Speech to Australia China Business Council
The move to broaden the ruling ethos from Deng's ‘to get rich is glorious’ to...
Speech to China Business Forum
I recall watching the last federal election on TV in Beijing, with a group of...
Speech to Griffith University
Published on Brisbane, November 20 2008 Virtually every Chinese garden features the clever design device...
Speech to Oz Asia Festival
Published on Adelaide, 2009 To answer these questions, it helps, I think, to have lived...
Speech to Australian Institute of International Affairs
Beijing's mandarinate is an outcome-driven bureaucracy, and what counts is not what people may feel...
Appreciation of Historian Jonathan Spence in Quadrant magazine
A figure in a hooded coat slipped through the crowd toward the blackboard and began,...
Programme notes for Nixon in China (John Adams)
On the day Nixon flew in, Mao was as excited as I had ever seen...
