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TV-UNPart 1 | Part 2Westerners have presumed that China's rise will take a familiar trajectory incorporating first economic, then political and social development in a broadly liberal democratic, market-driven direction. The recent tensions with Australia underline the failure of that perspective to explain modern China and its rise. What is China today and where is it heading? At this Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Asia-Pacific Editor of The Australian newspaper, Rowan Callick, explores the dimensions of the party-state.Lowy Institute, August 2009
