Tag: China

Australia dragging chain on security

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The lines are forming on the battleground of the 21st century. Cyber security is emerging as a major point of tension between nations, and as a significant area of...

Raby: China is still a struggle

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Australia’s former Ambassador to China Geoff Raby is now chairman of Australian technology firm Smartrans Ltd amongst a raft of other, mainly China related, board positions, but cautions that...

Turnbull’s an old China hand

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In May 2011, in his final months as Australia’s Ambassador to China, Geoff Raby –one of Australia’ most outspoken diplomats in recent years – delivered the withering put down...

Dodging China’s cyber cannon

Posted on   |  by James Riley
On the afternoon of September 14, when Malcolm Turnbull made his successful pitch to replace Tony Abbott as Prime Minister, he chose to use Labor’s opposition to FTA as...

HK targets foreign IoT founders

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Hong Kong has dramatically stepped up efforts to attract global founders to the former British colony to build companies, using its proximity to the electronics manufacturing industry in China...

China IP concerns over-blown: GGV

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No amount of hand-wringing over protecting your intellectual property in China is going to help build your company, and the notion that you can be globally focused and somehow...

Telstra Ventures lands in Beijing

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Telstra Ventures, the investment arm of Australia’s largest telco, will place its first person on the ground in Asia by the end of August with the addition of a...

SIVs may distort Aussie VC sector

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The famine-to-feast nature of the Significant Investor Visa money expected to hit the Australian venture capital market could do more harm than good, according to one of the industry’s...

China tech trade a rounding error

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What does the Free Trade Agreement mean for Australia’s technology industries? And what does it mean for our longer term relationship with China? The agreement (officially known as ‘ChAFTA’)...