The tense China-Taiwan relationship already has a history spanning over 40 years, and even though its intensity has reached new heights within the previous two, there are many factors at play that will continue to shift its course - and determine the wisest response for the rest of the world. This week's expert guest, Greg Barton, Research Professor in Asian Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, helps illuminate this fluctuating landscape, including the role surveillance strategies are playing on both sides. 

The tense China-Taiwan relationship already has a history spanning over 40 years, and even though its intensity has reached new heights within the previous two, there are many factors at play that will continue to shift its course - and determine the wisest response for the rest of the world. This week's expert guest, Greg Barton, Research Professor in Asian Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, helps illuminate this fluctuating landscape, including the role surveillance strategies are playing on both sides.

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Host Chris Smith speaks with leading experts about the impact of Australia's changing relationship with China.

The China Files with Chris Smith examines China's emergence as a global superpower and its plans for Australia and the Indo-Pacific.
Emboldened by its relentless economic growth, China's increasingly muscular geopolitical stance has led to frosty relations between Canberra and Beijing that show no signs of thawing. Where to from here?
Host Chris Smith speaks with leading experts about the impact of Australia's changing relationship with China.

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Will China's plans for the Indo Pacific shift? With Professor Greg Barton

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They also touch on how the Coalition's Promise to build seven nuclear powered reactors throughout Australia by 2050 stacks up against Labor's plan to power the grid entirely through renewables.

Federal Liberal Candidate for Gilmour and former NSW Treasurer, Infrastructure and Transport Minister, Andrew Constance, joins Bill Woods to dissect the major issues of the week in Federal Politics. Today, they analyze the smorgasbord of environmental issues that are predicted to arise from the controversial decision to approve an offshore wind farm in the NSW Illawarra, including the deaths of endangered species.   They also touch on how the Coalition's Promise to build seven nuclear powered reactors throughout Australia by 2050 stacks up against Labor's plan to power the grid entirely through renewables.

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