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Each week seems to bring more gloomy news about the state of the Australia-China relationship.
From export bans to visa cancellations, accusations of racism and cyber attacks, there is no doubt the relationship has been under a significant cloud for some time.
But that tweet from a Chinese government spokesperson on Monday, featuring a doctored image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of a young child points to an escalation in China’s approach.
Given Australia can’t just turn its back and walk away on its major trading partner, what happens now?
Melissa Conley Tyler is a research fellow at Melbourne University’s Asia Institute. She also has a background in conflict resolution. She writes Australia and China may not be best friends anytime soon, but they can reset the relationship.
Conley Tyler argues against opposing everything China does as “this lets China control your behaviour”.
She says we need more of a negotiation mentality.
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Judith Ireland
Deputy Editor, Politics + Society
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Melissa Conley Tyler, University of Melbourne
Australia can't remake China into a completely different country. Instead, we need to see it as a challenge to be managed — not an enemy.
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Education
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Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Monash University
NAPLAN scores are used to gauge the quality of schools. But the overemphasis on only literacy and numeracy scores stands in the way of providing a more holistic education.
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Arts + Culture
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Claire Smith, Flinders University; Gary Jackson, Flinders University; Kellie Pollard, Charles Darwin University
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The Chinese embassy has suggested the Morrison government might be trying to “stoke domestic nationalism” in its denunciation of an offensive Chinese tweet.
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