Too few deciphering the Chinese puzzle

There is not a single Australia-based scholar with up-to-the minute knowledge on either Chinese elite politics or macro-economics.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/too-few-deciphering-the-chinese-puzzle-20100307-pqj5.html

Congratulations to John Garnaut for this disturbing wake-up call.

Australia is never going to have the military muscle that we would like, that we need, and that we probably imagine we actually have.

The solution has to be found elsewhere. That solution will probably involve something like focusing on becoming a foreign aid, diplomatic, academic and intelligence power.

PS: Thanks to The Interpreter for the tip-off.

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2010/03/11/Reader-riposte.aspx