Devpolicy Talks

Development Policy Centre, ANU

Devpolicy Talks brings you interviews, event recordings and in-depth documentary features relating to the topics we research at the Development Policy Centre. The Centre, part of the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, works on Australian aid, development in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, and regional and global development issues. It is host to the Devpolicy Blog (devpolicy.org) and a range of public events including the annual PNG Update, the Pacific Update and the Australasian Aid and International Development Conference.

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Devpolicy Talks

Episodes (348)

Dec 15, 2025 Navigating China and the Global South: a conversation with Eric Olander
Dec 6, 2025 Pacific democracy: global indices and lived realities
Nov 14, 2025 Global public goods and the architecture of cooperation: a conversation with Inge Kaul

Devpolicy Talks

Dec 15, 2025
3¾ hours
87 MB

Eric Olander, Editor-in-Chief of the China Global South Project, offers a nuanced perspective on China’s engagement with developing countries across Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Pacific. Drawing on 40 years of experience as a journalist covering China, including stints at the BBC, Associated Press and CNN, Olander challenges dominant Western narratives about Chinese development finance, including the much-discussed “debt trap” thesis. He examines the evolution of the Belt and Road Initiative toward “small yet beautiful” projects, explores how developing countries are exercising agency in navigating great power competition, and discusses China’s construction of a parallel international governance a...

Devpolicy Talks

Navigating China and the Global South: a conversation with Eric Olander

Development Policy Centre, ANU

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