The US and China in Asia: How should Australia respond?

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC is Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow of The Australian National University, and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group which he led from 2000-2009. He was a member of the Australian Parliament for 21 years, and a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Governments for 13, including as Foreign Minister from 1988-96.

Hugh White AO is Professor of Strategic Studies at The Australian National University. His work focuses primarily on Australian strategic and defence policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, and global strategic affairs especially as they influence Australia and the Asia-Pacific. He has served as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, as a senior adviser on the staffs of Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and as a senior official in the Department of Defence, where from 1995 to 2000 he was Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence, and as the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

This event in run in conjunction with the Canberra Writers Festival and The Australian National University at the National Press Club.