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This chapter summarises the account of the policy. It is argued that the Rudd Government understood the appearance of a wave of large investments into the Australian raw resource sector as a threat to Australian sovereignty as it disrupted the Government’s capacity for liberal economic governance. It further understood its control over resources needed by the Chinese state as a point of strategic leverage and used this to attempt to open a conversation about the future trajectory of the regional order. The aim was to impress upon the Chinese Government that the new order needed to be actively created rather than passively arrived at, and that it was in China’s and other states’ interest that interstate interactions were made on the basis of liberal markets.
In this chapter I provide my account of the Rudd Government’s FDI screening policy.
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Peters, M. (2019). A Governmental Account of the Policy. In: Regulating the Rise of China. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05466-3_7
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