Asia Rising - Webinar: China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order

Webinar: China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order

04/27/21 • 58 min

The rise of China, Trump’s America First policies, division within Europe and successful defiance by authoritarian states are affecting the shape of the emerging new order. Human rights, rule of law, free media and longstanding global institutions all seem set to be weakened. Autocracies are exercising greater control over world affairs. Australia will need to engage heightened levels of diplomacy to forge relations with countries of opposing principles. It will need to be agile in pursuing a realistic foreign policy agenda if it is to be well positioned for this future.

A La Trobe Asia 'China in Focus' seminar, held in front of a zoom audience on 22 April, 2021.

Speakers:

Geoff Raby (former Australian ambassador to China (2007–11); ambassador to APEC (2003–5); and ambassador to the World Trade Organization (1998–2001). Member of the La Trobe Asia advisory board.

A La Trobe Asia 'China in Focus' seminar, held in front of a zoom audience on 22 April, 2021.

Speakers:

Geoff Raby (former Australian ambassador to China (2007–11); ambassador to APEC (2003–5); and ambassador to the World Trade Organization (1998–2001). Member of the La Trobe Asia advisory board.

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Webinar: Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking in Asia

Human trafficking is an urgent human security issue in Asia. The abuse and exploitation associated with human trafficking have been documented across a range of sectors, including the sex industry, domestic work, construction, agriculture, and fisheries. Key drivers of human trafficking across the region include poverty and the desire for a better life. Increasingly widening economic disparities in Asia and the impact of climate change have become a focus of attention for organisations attempting to address peoples' vulnerability to human trafficking.

Trafficking for labour exploitation outside the sex industry is now recognised as an equally significant concern in the region. The offshore fishing industry is beset by extreme cases of forced labour and human trafficking, exploiting migrant workers from Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and Myanmar, and with countries like Australia benefitting from the import of this seafood only fuelling the problem.

Speakers:

Associate Professor Sallie Yea (Tracey Banivanua Mar Principal Research Fellow, La Trobe University)

Jenny Stanger (Executive Manager at the Anti-Slavery Task Force, Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney)

Sunil Rao (Lecturer, La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University)

Chair: Dr Bec Strating (Executive Director, La Trobe Asia)

Held as live zoom panel on 20th April, 2021.

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#161: Social Justice in Japan's Education

Over the past two decades Japan has experienced slow economic growth, changed employment practices, population decline, an ageing society, and an increasingly multi-ethnic population resulting from migration. How all of these factors have influenced education will shape the society of the future.

Guest:

Professor Kaori Okano (Asian Studies and Japanese, La Trobe University)