China panic

A leading historian on Xinjiang, David Brophy is the author of the acclaimed Uyghur nation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), a strong critic of China's repression against Uighurs and other ethnic groups, and an active participant in the struggle for Hong Kong's autonomy and many other progressive causes. This record of activism makes Brophy the ideal person to write this comprehensive critique of Australia's ‘China panic’ of the past four years. While trolls in Australia's rowdy China Twitter community have often hurled accusations of complicity with PRC propaganda in Brophy's direction, for serious analysts of China's foreign relations this book is essential reading. China panic is first and foremost a detailed account of the causes and effects of the deterioration in Australia's relations with China since 2017. However, the book also offers a sharp and provocative analysis of Canberra's role in regional politics and a compelling perspective on the

Autonomy · China · Complicity · Media studies · Paranoia · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies