Questions over how to deal with a resurgent China

Updated June 29, 2009 20:32:46

The issue of North Korea and the perceived threat of its nuclear programme has raised expectations of China - and questions about how it hopes to position itself as it becomes more and more involved in strategic world affairs. And perhaps the most immediate of those questions is how Asia and the United States will deal - or come to terms - with China as a resurgent great power.

Presenter: Graeme Dobell, Radio Australia's associate editor for the Asia Pacific
Speakers: Dr Robert Gates, US defence secretary; Kevin Rudd, Australian prime minister; Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of general staff, People's Liberation Army, China; Dr Yang Xiyu, China Institute of International Studies; Professor Kishore Mahbubani, dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore

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