Does China threaten Australia’s future peace and security?

The United States and China are contesting for great power supremacy. Australia depends on the United States for security; and on China for our economic prosperity, with China accounting for a third of all our exports. How should Australia best navigate this challenge? In recent years there are some who suggest that China is our greatest military threat. Our current Defence Strategy amplifies this, most obviously through the acquisition of AUKUS nuclear powered submarines and long range missiles.

In this Webinar, Dr Vince Scappatura will share his assessment of China’s and Australia’s search for peace and security in our region. Vince Scappatura is Sessional Academic in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University, and author of The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy, Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. He is currently working with Professor Richard Tanter on the 'Nuclear-Capable B-52H Stratofortress Bombers Project' which can be located on the website of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability.

Also, Dr Jocelyn Chey, inaugural Executive Director of the Australia-China Council, former senior diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Beijing, and now Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Chinese Arts and Culture at the University of Western Sydney will offer her approach for Australia to live in peace and security with China.