How Australia, China & Asia can live together in a multipolar world

Warwick Powell and I had a wide-ranging conversation about Australia-China relationships, and how history has shaped the tensions in the relationship today. But history can also show us how Australia, Asia and America can learn to live together at peace with a multipolar world. Please enjoy this wonderful, inspiring conversation with Australia-China expert, Warwick Powell.
Warwick Powell is an adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology, author, chairman of Smart Trade Networks, former adviser to former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and a frequent commentator on geopolitics and Australia-Asia relationships.
You can follow Warwick Powell on X (Twitter) at: / baoshaoshan
Warwick recommended two KZbin sites towards the end of the interview that can help you see the reality of contemporary daily life in China more clearly, and away from the often polarising rhetoric of politics. These sites are
Blondie in China (‪@BlondieinChina‬) - / @blondieinchina
Katherine’s journey to the East (‪@kats_journey_east‬) - / @kats_journey_east
You can also watch my discussion with ‪@TheDuran‬ about AUKUS, China and Australia's role in a multipolar world here: • China, AUKUS and contr...
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[@Soundmaster91]

Thanks mate this was great to hear some of the history. I grew up during the late 90s and early 2000s in the schooling system. We had Asian language classes and then one year they disappeared.

[@theburningarchive]

Yes, indeed. I knew some of the people behind the push, really from the 1960s I would say, to engage more with Asian languages and culture. There is a lot of sadness, but remarkably also there was some good news the other day with an opnion poll showing most Australians do not see China as a threat.

[@waichui2988]

The problem is that many people, especially the American political class, do not want a multi polar world. They want to keep leading the world.

[@AdisakrebornPomngam]

Exactly right.

[@theburningarchive]

Thank you... any point in particular?

[@AdisakrebornPomngam]

How will good relations between Indonesia and Australia affect the issue of China's expanding influence in South China and ASEAN?

[@sydca5365]

there has been very little admission that it is deeply about the race. White Europeans and Americans, in their hearts, couldn't tolerate that a non-white, non-Christian, Oriental race/nation becoming equally powerful economically, politically, culturally, more importantly militarily. This is sad but blunt truth that nobody could say it out loud.

[@theburningarchive]

Thanks. This is an important and sensitive issue I discussed with Wawick after the show. I am inclined to think it is a mix of race and power. So many peoples have suffered imperial contempt, I feel it is not all prejudice against one group.

[@tomtraster2065]

Does Australia reject chinas clame over the entire south china sea?

[@theburningarchive]

I am not across the details of the various competing claims on maritime boundaries in the South China sea. Sorry. thanks for the question.

[@gsismaet5385]

Ditch America.