What does China want?
On May 5 Australia-China Relations Institute Director Bob Carr interviewed Linda Jakobson on China’s aspirations in 2016 and the implications for Australia.
In an in-depth discussion, Linda explored the big questions of what China wants: what international role China aspires to, what China's intentions in the South China Sea are and how China will shape the region in the coming years. She assessed China's role as a foreign policy actor, covering Central Asia, the East China Sea and South China Sea as well as China's multilateral engagement and relationship with the US.
Speaker
Linda Jakobson
Linda Jakobson is an internationally recognised China specialist who spent 22 years living and working in China. She has published six books on Chinese and East Asian societies and published extensively on China’s foreign and security policy, the Taiwan Straits and China’s energy security. She is the founding director of China Matters, an Australian not-for-profit public policy initiative that aims to stimulate a more nuanced debate in Australia about China and advance sound China policy.
Linda is also a Visiting Professor at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Linda moved to Sydney from Beijing in 2011 to serve as the East Asia Program Director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Her last position in Beijing was Director of the China and Global Security Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Over the last 20 years she has been invited to advise numerous European ministers and heads of state.
