China, the South Pacific, and Contemporary Geopolitics with the Dr. A-M. Brady

Wednesday 25 January 2017

Within a relatively short period China has become a leading player in the South Pacific and multiple Chinese political and economic actors are engaging with the region. Taiwan has been a key factor for China’s interest in the region, but it is not the only one. This talk discusses the range of China’s interests in the South Pacific and how they connect to China’s broader geopolitical interests, and raises the question on how these may impact on France’s own interests in the South Pacific, Indian, and Southern Ocean.

Anne-Marie is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham, and Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. In 2014 she was appointed to a two-year term on the World Economic Forum’s Global Action Council on the Arctic. She is a fluent Mandarin speaker who has published 10 books and more than 40 academic papers. She is editor in chief of The Polar Journal, published by Taylor and Francis. Her recent publications include: Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), Looking North, Looking South: China, Taiwan, and the South Pacific (World Scientific, 2010); China’s Thought Management (Routledge, 2012); The Emerging Politics of Antarctica (Routledge, 2013); and China as a Polar Great Power (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Chaired by Pr. Jean-Pierre Cabestan

Asia Centre’s Strategic Observatory on China provides monitoring and analysis on all dimensions of China’s power (strategic, political, industrial, economic and financial). Focused on internal politics, PLA modernization, and China’s security and foreign policy in Asia and in the world, and its impact on French and European interests, the Observatory gathers a community of experts, academics and representatives of the public sector, and spreads and shares findings with an international audience of China specialists.