The Dragon in the Pacific: Partner or Threat?

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Partner:: Lowy Institute for International Policy
Location:: Lowy Institute for International Policy
Sydney, Australia
Event Date:: 06.11.08
Speakers:: Allan Gyngell,; Fergus Hanson
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Summary: Since it grabbed the media's attention, China's aid program in the Pacific has sparked a lively debate.

Why is a country which itself received $US 1.76 billion in aid in 2005 giving aid to the Pacific at all and on what scale?

China runs a secretive aid program that has fueled suspicions it is up to no good and which undermines efforts to improve accountability, governance and stability.

So how much aid is China giving, for what purposes and how can Australia ensure that China�s aid program in the Pacific complements rather than undercuts our own efforts?

Lowy Institute Policy Brief by Fergus Hanson, The Dragon in the Pacific: More Opportunity than Threat, addresses these questions by taking a fresh look at China's aid activities across the region - The Lowy Institute for International Policy

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Allan Gyngell

Allan Gyngell, the executive director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, has a wide background in international policy making and analysis. He has written and spoken extensively on Australian foreign policy, Asian regional relations, and the development of global and regional institutions. After graduating in history and political science from Melbourne University, he served as an Australian diplomat in Rangoon, Singapore and Washington. He also spent a number of years with the Office of National Assessments, Australia's national intelligence analysis organisation, where he worked on southeast Asian issues and headed the branch dealing with great power relations at the end of the Cold War. He was later first assistant secretary in the international division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. From 1993 to 1996, he was foreign policy adviser in the office of the Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating. After leaving government in 1997, he worked as a consultant to a number of Australian companies. In 2003, he was appointed as the founding executive director of the Lowy Institute. He is a member of the Australian Government's Foreign Affairs Council. The second edition of his book, Making Australian Foreign Policy, co-written with Professor Michael Wesley, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.

Fergus Hanson

Fergus Hanson is a Research Associate at the Lowy Institute. His published masters' thesis focused on regional stability in the Pacific. Previously, he worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and served at the Australian Embassy in The Hague.

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01.: Allan Gyngell: Introduction

02 min 22 sec

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02.: Fergus Hanson: China's Aid Program

02 min 59 sec

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03.: On What Scale?

04 min 28 sec

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04.: Drivers Of Giving

07 min 15 sec

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05.: Why It Matters

03 min 40 sec

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06.: Engaging China

04 min 30 sec

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07.: Rumors, Greatly Exaggerated

02 min 22 sec

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08.: Q1: Secretive Chinese

02 min 20 sec

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09.: Q2: Embassies, Infrastructure Projects

04 min 33 sec

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10.: Q3: A Logical Succession, Africa

03 min 21 sec

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11.: Q4: Expats

01 min 29 sec

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12.: Q5: The Solomon Islands

01 min 43 sec

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13.: Q6: China's Aid Motivations

02 min 37 sec

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14.: Q7: Aid Across The World

01 min 37 sec

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15.: Q8: Corrupt Officials

01 min 54 sec

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16.: Q9: What Australia Can Learn from China

04 min 00 sec

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17.: Q10: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

03 min 48 sec

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18.: Q11: Transparency, Donor Coordination

06 min 25 sec

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Fergus Hanson on the Transparency of Chinese Embassies

02 min 59 sec

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Fergus Hanson on Learning Lessons from China

02 min 11 sec

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Fergus Hanson on the Motivations Behind China's Aid

01 min 53 sec

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