Global Politics - China Under Surveillance

China Under Surveillance

04/24/18 • 17 min

Any visitor to China will be acutely aware of the amount of security, and nowhere is this more visible than the nation’s capital, Beijing. Guards are frequent, Cameras are plentiful, and the electronic data mining is extensive.

GUEST:
Bill Birtles (China Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea

GUEST:
Bill Birtles (China Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea

Previous Episode

Educating China's Little Soldiers

The Chinese education system has had its criticisms, but many argue that it delivers, at least in the larger cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong. Students are pushed to study, with many students attending after-school tutoring, and qualities such as respect and dedication are held to a higher standard than that of western education systems.

GUEST:
Lenora Chu (American journalist, author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve’)

Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea

Next Episode

Australian Foreign Policy in a Contested Indo-Pacific Region

The future of the Indo-Pacific region is being buffeted by an array of complex forces including the return of great power rivalry, rising illiberalism, and growing nationalism.

SPEAKERS:
The Hon Julie Bishop MP (Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party)
Professor Nick Bisley (Head, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University)
Tony Walker (Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University)
Dr Rebecca Strating (Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)

In partnership with La Trobe University’s Ideas and Society Program.

Recorded at Grand Hyatt Melbourne on 1th April 2018.