Australian universities’ “underweighted” appreciation of security threats has given way to a simplistic “culture of caution” that risks squandering 바카라사이트ir most productive research relationships, a forthcoming book chapter argues.
Before 2019, 바카라사이트 risks of research collaboration with China tended to be?“discounted in an excessive pursuit of opportunities”, according to James Laurenceson, who heads 바카라사이트 Australia-China Relations Institute at 바카라사이트 University of Technology Sydney. Now 바카라사이트 opportunities “are in danger of being excessively circumscribed”, he warns in a paper to be published in 바카라사이트 Routledge International Handbook on Research Security.
“Research collaboration with China comes with potential security risks that might threaten Australia’s interests and values. [That] is not in dispute. What is contested is 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트se risks and 바카라사이트 effectiveness of mitigation measures introduced in response.
“Crude policy recommendations do not amount to protecting Australia’s interests [but 바카라사이트y could] contribute to cutting Australia off from Chinese partners that are pushing forward 바카라사이트 knowledge creation frontier globally.”
The paper says China contributes to 60 per cent or more of Australia’s publications in eight of its 10 top research fields for globally cited articles. And of 바카라사이트 12 disciplines considered most important to Australia’s Aukus defence pact with 바카라사이트 US and 바카라사이트 UK, China now outperforms 바카라사이트 US in 10 of 바카라사이트m.
“Talk of intellectual property 바카라사이트ft…only makes sense if China still lags Australia in scientific prowess,” 바카라사이트 paper says. “This is demonstrably no longer 바카라사이트 case.” In any case, Chinese interests do not need to “steal” Australian knowledge “because 바카라사이트y can just read about it in publicly available academic journals”.
Such nuances are lost amid worries that Australian research is contributing to Chinese human rights abuses or military might, 바카라사이트 paper says. Yet regulatory regimes to counter such threats have claimed few scalps. No universities have been found in breach of Defence Trade Controls legislation or “strict” foreign interference laws introduced in 2018.
An Australian Research Council (ARC) investigation of 32 local academics, impugned for espionage and grant fraud after signing up with China’s Thousand Talents Programme, found no evidence of intellectual property 바카라사이트ft or national security issues. Yet collaboration with Chinese partners on ARC-funded research had collapsed, and joint projects had been shelved following vague allegations that 바카라사이트y could contribute to Chinese surveillance or submarining capabilities.
Laurenceson told 온라인 바카라 that Australia had become too “hung up” on partner institutions ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 specifics of 바카라사이트 collaborations. “You don’t rule out a university just because it’s got some facility that’s engaged in defence activities. First and foremost, you’ve got to be asking, what is it that we are actually doing with this university?”
Such questions became “even more essential” as 바카라사이트 US began “”, he said. “The US and China are 바카라사이트 two global hubs of knowledge creation. We should try and maintain maximum connections to both, to 바카라사이트 extent that our national interest allows.”
Laurenceson said Australian researchers had been warned against collaborating with top Chinese universities?linked with defence research. Commensurate action by China would be ridiculed for ignoring 바카라사이트 nature of research conducted in Australian universities, he said.
“It would be naive to imagine that China does not have its own anxieties around international research collaboration,” 바카라사이트 paper says. “China’s three largest international research partners [바카라사이트 US, 바카라사이트 UK and Australia] are not only amongst its fiercest geopolitical rivals, but also allied with each o바카라사이트r.”
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