Our world is being transformed as we speak – at breakneck speed. One particular change is dramatic yet barely understood.

The west-centric world, in which first Europe and then the United States held sway, is giving way to a new world – to new centres of wealth and power and their rich histories, traditions and languages. The centre of gravity is visibly shifting from the west to the east, from occident to orient.

Asia’s sleeping giants, China and India, are reawakening – with sweeping consequences for everyone, not least US allies. Australia is especially affected by virtue of its geography, its longstanding alliance with the US, its trade dependence on China and its rapidly growing Indian and Chinese communities.

This in Conversation With brings together three eminent academics, Professor Wanning Sun, Dr Allan Patience and Dr Pradeep Taneja to address these trends and their implications in a fascinating conversation with Professor Joseph Camilleri.