China is expanding at a rapid rate, economically, militarily and technologically. Beijing is casting an ever-greater political and diplomatic shadow over the whole world, a world the west thought it had neatly tied up in a package of institutions and norms of its own making.
That's now all being challenged. So how concerned should we be about China's prodigious rise?
Featured:
'Tarim', Uighur man
Admiral Chris Barrie, former chief, Australian Defence Force
Dr. Euan Graham, executive director, La Trobe Asia
Meg Taylor, secretary general, Pacific Islands Forum
Caitlin Byrne, director, Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University
Produced by Linda Mottram and Flint Duxfield
World Politics, Economic Globalisation, Science and Technology