David Brophy
David Brophy is senior lecturer in modern Chinese history at the University of Sydney.
David's recent articles
22 July 2021
China: A big threat to our future or misunderstood hegemon?
David Brophy and Jocelyn Chey speaking at the Politics in the Pub Forum on relations with China.
5 May 2021
More transparency needed around Unis audit into foreign interference
The Universitys approach to foreign interference puts its Chinese staff at risk. Theres a tension in the idea of the modern university, between the essentially borderless nature of knowledge production, and the rival claim that universities should serve the national interest.
16 September 2020
No one wins in a race to the bottom on national security: Let the Chinese academics back in (The China Story Sep 15, 2020)
If politicians dont change course, the deterioration of Australias relationship with China will go hand in hand with the erosion of our civil liberties.