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In a global world, it is the relationship that looms largest for our nation. Now a new book on Australia's links with China brings together new voices and fresh thinking on the shared future of the two nations. Launched at Parliament House by the Hon Andrew Leigh MP and Senator Dean Smith, A New Australia-China Agenda is the latest publication from the ANU Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW). Centre director and co-editor Professor Geremie Barmé said it was time to stop talking in overused platitudes about the ongoing relationship. "The Australia-China relationship touches on virtually every aspect of our national life," Professor Barmé said. "A mature and beneficial engagement of such breadth and depth requires the leadership and support of government at all levels, as well as public stewardship, media engagement, educational enhancement, and the strategic involvement of the business communities. "We are long beyond finding comfort in nostrums about the special nature or excellent quality of 'Australia-China' relations.
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