Despite such promotional efforts, Jones said that Australia still has a way to go before the Australian International Dispute Centre (AIDC), which opened in Sydney in 2010, can challenge established regional international arbitral seats in Singapore and Hong Kong. "Our goals are still aspirational," he says. "Our objective is to have the AIDC considered as an option when people are considering neutral seats for international arbitration in the region. "It is enough for us at the moment for people to be saying 'well, there is Singapore, there is Hong Kong and there is Australia. That is what I have been trying to pitch in the roadshows I have been doing globally." In June, Jones led an ACICA delegation that visited China. He says that China's emergence as the world's foremost economic power and its interest in Australia's energy and resources sector makes it a logical destination to target. "Australia is uniquely placed to provide a neutral venue because the other two centres in Asia, Hong Kong and Singapore, are often viewed by counterparts to Chinese companies from other parts of the world as too closely connected with China." One of the strange international couplings arising out of the Cold War, and in the post-Soviet Union geo-political and legal environment, was that Stockholm became an important destination for hearing commercial disputes involving Chinese and foreign parties, with the Chinese viewing the Swedish capital as an acceptable western forum in which to hear arbitration. Jones is working hard to take some of