Watch the video here as China Daily reporter Ian Goodrum talks about issues of democracy with John Keane, a professor of politics at the University of Sydney. What's his take on Chinese democracy and its practices? How does it differ from...
Read MoreThis episode explores the challenge for Australia as it enters a new era, in which China’s international sway increases and democracies compete with their rivals for global influence. Join Jonathan Pearlman and guests John Keane and Linda Jaivin. Background reading: John Keane, “Enter...
Read More17 March 2021 Talk of a new Cold War between the US and China emphasizes military capacity and economic prowess. Warrior discourse presents a mono-dimensional situation in which conflict is inevitable. But couldn’t China’s stratospheric rise be better understood and handled...
Read MoreDecoding the new Chinese empire John Keane, Australian Foreign Affairs 11 (February 2021) When future historians look back on our discordant times, they will surely note an epochal shift of global importance: the return of China, after nearly two centuries of humiliation,...
Read MoreMartin Lee Chu-ming, affectionately known as the “grandfather of Hong Kong democracy”. Mick Tsikas/AAP John Keane, University of Sydney This exclusive interview with Martin Lee took place in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district last weekend. Martin Lee Chu-ming is affectionately known as the “grandfather...
Read MoreAn interview with Nathan Letts, the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Canberrra, September 5, 2019 [audio mp3="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/John-Keane-HK-Interview.mp3"][/audio]...
Read More18 August 2019 Hong Kong: Hungary 1956 with Chinese Characteristics? ABC interview (Sydney) ...
Read MoreOriginally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use...
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Within public life in many Western countries, the words ‘politics’ (zhèngzhì), ‘political’ and ‘political life’ (zhèngzhì yóuxì) are today proving to be deeply controversial. They are often reckoned to be dirty words, synonyms for corrupt government, lying politicians and unpopular...
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