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James Curran

Our China panic is stepping into the world of paranoia

The China debate is close to losing all sense of rationality and proportion. Where's the confidence in our institutions?

James CurranInternational affairs expert

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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s increasingly aggressive embrace of Chinese exceptionalism, coming at the same time President Trump continues to weaken American credibility in Asia, only intensifies the dilemma for countries like Australia in managing relations with Beijing.

And it heightens the level of our national strategic anxiety.

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James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.

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