PUBLIC LECTURE: The Waking Dragon: Rampant, Restless or Reasonable? China and its Neighbours in a New Century

David Sadleir AO, a graduate of The University of Western Australia and former Ambassador to China, is ideally positioned to comment on relations between China and its neighbours.

“China's resurgence offers as good a prospect of peace and prosperity as it does of war and other conflict,” he says. “Much depends on how the interplay between China and the other great powers is managed. Australia has a valuable role in that.”

David Sadleir’s distinguished career in Foreign Affairs began in 1958. The following two decades saw him in a variety of postings at Washington, Moscow, Manila and Tokyo before his appointment as First Assistant Secretary, North & South Asia Division (China, Japan, Korea, the Indian sub-continent and Indochina).

Later, as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, he had supervision of policy advice on North Asia (ie China, Japan and Korea), the EU and the USA as well as Defence, Intelligence and Arms Control issues. He also served as Australian Ambassador to the United Nations between 1981 and 1984.

Mr Sadleir’s term of office as Australia’s Ambassador to China ran from 1988 to 1991, during which time the turbulent events surrounding the Tiananmen Square episode rocked the progress of international relationships with China.

Among his subsequent appointments, Mr Sadleir put in a four-year stint as Director General, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in Canberra. He went on to become Advisor to AMP Limited on China, concurrently serving as a member of the Australian Government’s Australia-China Council and Chair of its Committee on Cultural Exchanges. He is now Director, David Sadleir & Associates Pty Ltd as well as Chair, Advisory Board on National Security Standards, Standards Australia.

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with the support of the China Centre Working Party Convenor: Professor Paige Porter, Director, UWA Institute for International Development

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