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At the Australian National Conference, Aso Taro, former prime minister of Japan, laid out his concerns about the region and his advocacy for JAUKUS.
Find out more about the AIIA National Conference at aiianationalconference.org
Or be part of Australia's largest public conversation on international affairs: join the AIIA today! internationalaffairs.org.au
At the Australian National Conference, Aso Taro, former prime minister of Japan, laid out his concerns about the region and his advocacy for JAUKUS.
Find out more about the AIIA National Conference at aiianationalconference.org
Or be part of Australia's largest public conversation on international affairs: join the AIIA today! internationalaffairs.org.au





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There is a curious paradox about the state of Chinese language learning in Australia. A Chinese program on an urban university campus may well have over an enrolment of over a thousand students.
However, very few of this enrolment proceed to advanced Chinese courses that seek to train the student in higher level analytical skills together with core China knowledge.
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