Great Game On: The Contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy - Book Launch

Historically, China has sought to maintain its security by building dominant relationships with pliant states that accept its pre-eminence. Its expanding role and influence in Central Asia has been as incremental and piecemeal as it has been deliberate.

In a new book, Great Game On​ (2024, Melbourne University Press), Australia's former ambassador to China, Geoff Raby, explores the Eurasian power shift to understand the forces shaping its geopolitics.

With its emergence as the leading power in Eurasia based on its inexorable economic rise and Putin's folly in Ukraine, China has been released from its past existential anxieties about land-based threats from Eurasia. It now has the chance to project its power globally, as the US did from the early twentieth century when it became the dominant power in the western hemisphere.

What threats and risks must China address? And what happens when China becomes the established, stable, dominant power in Eurasia?

AIIA Victoria invites you to join Geoff Raby in conversation with Rowan Callick for a journey across Eurasia. Copies of the book will be available for sale.

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AIIA Victoria gratefully acknowledges the Walter Mangold Trust Fund for their support of our young members.

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