Australian and PRC government conceptions of the international order - with Simone van Nieuwenhuizen

In Australia, discussion of the current state and future of the international order is thriving. This discussion has been precipitated by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s growing economic and political importance, as well as questions surrounding US commitment to the existing order. How do the Australian and PRC governments understand the international order? What terms do they use to describe and explain it? How do they view their own roles and the roles of other actors within the international order? Simone van Nieuwenhuizen, Project and Research Officer at the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney, discusses her latest research into Australian and PRC government conceptions of the international order, with Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer at ACRI.