{"id":8166,"date":"2021-01-21T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:34:00","slug":"china-tribute-where-tribute-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/china-tribute-where-tribute-is-due\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Tribute where tribute is due"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2012, Australia&#8217;s federal government led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard released a White Paper on &#8220;Australia in the Asian Century.&#8221; This included a list of ambitious but worthwhile targets for Asia-engagement by 2025, none of which now appears attainable except for reaching national income of about A$73,000 per person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is not causing the concern that ordinarily it might, since it was also in 2012 that a ripple started in east Asia that has turned into a tsunami of tension and change in the region \u2013 over-riding the strategic planning not only of Australia but of every other significant state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For it was then, that Xi Jinping \u2013 viewed widely as a predictable, moderate, consensus-and-continuity candidate \u2013 was appointed general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please click here to read the full \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlineopinion.com.au\/view.asp?article=21266\">China: Tribute where tribute is due<\/a>\u201d article published at On Line Opinion, written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.griffith.edu.au\/asia-institute\">Griffith Asia Institute<\/a> Industry Fellow, Rowan Callick.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Australia&#8217;s federal government led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard released a White Paper on &#8220;Australia in the Asian Century.&#8221; This included a list of ambitious but worthwhile targets for Asia-engagement by 2025, none of which now appears attainable except for reaching national income of about A$73,000 per person. 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