It’s not uncommon to see China under President Xi Jinping labelled as ‘nationalistic’ and ‘populist’ – along with Trump and Brexit. But should they be lumped together? And how should foreign business engaging with China react?
Adjunct Professor Clinton Dines shared his thoughts on these and other questions at a public event hosted by Griffith Asia Institute this month, chaired by Professor Sara McGaughey. With over 36 years of business experience in China, there are few better credentialed than Clinton Dines to speak on these issues.
Adjunct Professor Clinton Dines
“Populism isn’t new”, says Clinton. “It’s a feature of developed world democracies. Essentially, these things are driven by the electoral process, enabled and magnified these days by social media and by an increasingly emasculated mainstream media who get more and more of their information from social media, amplifying the effect. It’s underpinned, since the global financial crisis in particular, by mistrust in the
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