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Chinese taming of Australian media, academia
Some excellent, alarming podcasts are coming out from the Asia Institute, Melbourne, on Chinese interventions there to control Australian media and academia. In the first one, not least John Fitzgerald is astute as an observer and he's actually not just talking about Chinese-language media but also Chinese interventions in English-language media:  
Control and Capture: Taming Overseas Chinese Media
The Little Red Podcast, Asia Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2016.
https://soundcloud.com/user-340830825/control-and-capture-taming-overseas-chinese-media
“China’s not trying to influence, it’s trying to change Australia.”
This week we hear from insiders about the range of strategies used by the Chinese government to tame the Chinese-language media in Australia, from cooption to intimidation to outright censorship. Speakers: Raymond Chow, Sameway Magazine; John Fitzgerald, Swinburne University; Yan Xia, Vision China Times
Trashing The Brand? Australian universities and the lure of Chinese money
The Little Red Podcast, Asia Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2016.
https://soundcloud.com/user-340830825/trashing-the-brand-australian-universities-and-the-lure-of-chinese-money
Graeme and Louisa are joined by James Leibold, Paul MacGregor and Louise Edwards to discuss the impact of mainland Chinese money on Australia's higher education sector. What happens when a cash-strapped university sector meets mainland Chinese investors with deep party connections and even deeper pockets?
Magnus Fiskesjö <nf42 at cornell.edu>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on December 17, 2016
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