Foreign Affairs has created a National Foundation for Australia-China Relations

Appointments include, dean of Australia’s China journalists, the very learned indeed Rowan Callick (ex The Australian, now at Griffith U), John Fitzgerald (Swinburne emeritus), Rory Medcalf, (ANU’s National Security College),  ANU VC Brian Schmidt, Christine Wong (Uni Melbourne) and Wai-Ling Yeung (Curtin U).

The foundation has $44m over five years, to “ turbo-charge our national effort in engaging China.” But don’t dust off applications there is no reference to research funding.