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Saturday 2 April 2022. 12:45PM-3:00PM.

As a follow-up from last year’s Round Table, a wide representation of Chinese Australian thinkers/leaders address current issues across our communities. We bring both emerging as well as established public figures together to establish a balanced and comprehensive forum of our diversity, identity, rights, interests, and values. We discuss the enabling of the Chinese Australians as both old and new diaspora to establish its potential and build unity. Two Chinese Australian Federal Senate Candidates are amongst our speakers

Program :

• Individual Addresses from the Speakers
• Q & A – Questions to the Speakers as a Panel
• Open Brainstorming on Positive Actions with the Audience

Kingsley Liu (Chair) - Scope, reasons and aim of the Roundtable

The speakers are

Frank Wu – (Keynote) Committee of 100 in USA, China Initiative and other initiatives

Erin Chew – Update of the racism incidents survey and stopasianhate

Marcus Reubenstein – his defamation case, anti- discrimination league ?

Fuxin Li – Chinese language and community’s culture and identity

Haiqing Yu – Wechat - Social Media & Diaspora – Insights

Han Hee – Chinese Culture and Australian Values - Alignment or Dissociation ?

John Lander – The Taiwan paradox and its impact on Chinese Australians

Panel discussion with the Speakers

1) How do we get more Chinese Australians to run as political & civic candidates ?

2) What is our identity ? How do we feel about ourselves as Chinese Australians ? "When are we Chinese, when are we Australia, in what way can we be both"

3) How can we as Chinese diaspora be more inclusive with each other ( north and south) ? and with other communities ?

4) How do you feel about the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme in respect to Chinese Australians ?

Open Brainstorming and Idea Fest for everyone, audience and speaker

15 sec to 1 minutes spots for ideas from the floor, to be moderated

Close of Round-table followed by the publication of the electronic collection of the addresses, contributed papers, videos

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Bios, Synopsis & Photographs of the Speakers: https://cccav.org.au/speakers-at-chinese-australian-roundtable-2022/

An electronic collection of the speeches, papers, videos or abstracts in relation to the topics contributed by the national roundtable speakers, participants and their organizational stakeholders will be published and emailed to all attendees.

The idea fest will be the basis for more round-tables, serious lobbying and discussions

Contact: ChineseAustralianRoundtable@gmail.com (Kingsley Liu or Jimmy Li)

Previous Chinese Australian Roundtables:

• 2021 (August): "Chinese-Australian Community in Challenging Times" (https://cccav.org.au/chinese-australian-community-in-challenging-times/)

• 2018 (August): “Australia China Relationship – Our Current Challenges” (Ref: https://www.gevans.org/speeches/Speech665.html)