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Can Australia manage the tensions between our strategic relationship with China and the alliance with the United States?
Does membership of AUKUS and the Quad damage our China relationship?
How significantly are societal and economic issues - such as the role of women in decision making, aging population, corruption and the household registration system - impacting cohesion?
China expert, Graeme Smith joins Mark to discuss China, and our relationship.
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Graeme Smith is an Associate Professor and Acting Director at ANU's Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, and host of The Little Red Podcast.
Mark Kenny is the Director of the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He came to the Australian National University after a high-profile journalistic career culminating in 6 years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.
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