John Lee, Michael Hintze Fellow for Energy Security at the Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney, discusses why “China cannot exist as a ‘responsible stakeholder’ in the international liberal economic order until and unless the regime releases its grip on the levers of economic power.”

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