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  • 2 days ago
    • Asean
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    Economic diplomacy: Trump era transcends economics

    Greg Earl
    The International Monetary Fund and Australia have found some welcome security amid growing geopolitical fragmentation.
  • 23 Apr 2025
    • Vietnam
    • Trade
    • United States

    From tariffs to triumph, Vietnam holds the key to US trade strategy

    Brian R Braun
    The next three months offer a rare chance for the US to turn tariff tensions into a durable framework for fairer trade.
  • 22 Apr 2025
    • Trade
    • United States

    Hirschman’s warning: Forgotten lessons about Trump’s trade war

    Mark Beeson
    History is the best guide we have.
  • 16 Apr 2025
    • Global Economy
    • Trade

    The scrambalisation era is here

    Nick Bisley
    The distortionary impact of political second-guessing in investment and trade dynamics will be felt across the globe.
  • 14 Apr 2025
    • China
    • Trade
    • United States

    What’s next in the US trade conflict?

    John Edwards
    A sense of economic déjà vu is driving the Trump administration in the dispute with China.
  • 10 Apr 2025
    • Asean
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    Tariffs or temporary pause: ASEAN’s big choice

    Greg Earl
    How Southeast Asian nations respond to Donald Trump’s economic coercion matters for the world and Australia.
  • 9 Apr 2025
    • Asean
    • Trade
    • BRICS
    • United States

    A tariffying shift for the ASEAN market

    Niaz Asadullah , Doris Liew
    The US is driving away friends and accelerating a process of diversification.
  • 7 Apr 2025
    • China
    • Trade
    • Technology
    • United States

    Electrifying geopolitics: Tesla vs BYD

    Mark Beeson
    The competition to change the world.
  • 3 Apr 2025
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade

    Trump’s tariffs: Australia hit with a stick while our region was clobbered

    Roland Rajah
    The entire export-driven development model of Southeast Asia is now at serious risk.
  • 3 Apr 2025
    • Australia
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    Australia in Trump’s new tariff order

    Stephen Moran
    The new US tariffs are so high and wide-ranging that they represent an economic experiment.
  • 3 Apr 2025
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    Troubled waters, polluted skies: Will a global shipping tax finally take off?

    Georgia Hammersley
    A historic levy on ship emissions is within reach, but disagreements over its size and use threaten to sink the deal.
  • 31 Mar 2025
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade

    Sweet deals, sour times, and Australia’s blind eye to Trumponomics

    Intifar Chowdhury
    Big budget deficits thanks to election promises leave little room to move ahead of a gathering tariff war.
  • 28 Mar 2025
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade
    • Yemen
    • United States

    Breaking Houthi resolve: Why Trump’s strikes won’t work any better than Biden’s

    Mark O'Neill
    The “whack-a-mole” approach to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea needs a rethink – upstream, rather than down.
  • 28 Mar 2025
    • Singapore
    • Defence & Security
    • Trade
    • Technology

    Chipping away at controls: Singapore’s challenge with China-linked companies

    Alvin Camba
    A tech fraud case has again put the Southeast Asian nation in the spotlight.
  • 25 Mar 2025
    • China
    • Vietnam
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    Made in Vietnam or a backdoor for Chinese exports?

    Roland Rajah , Ahmed Albayrak
    Fretting over “hidden” Chinese exports should not overshadow Vietnam’s helpful role in diversifying global supply chains.
  • 17 Mar 2025
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade

    The Suez battles forces beyond its control

    Selwyn Parker
    Not only rocket attacks but tariff threats, there is mounting uncertainty in global shipping.
  • 14 Mar 2025
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade
    • International law
    • Sustainability
    • Pacific Islands

    Sunk costs: Pacific shipwrecks and the urgent call for the Nairobi Convention

    Sheridan Ward
    An international accord to clean up shipwrecks and other waste from commerce on the high seas already exists. The region should get on board.
  • 13 Mar 2025
    • India
    • Trade
    • United States

    Trump’s tariffs on India: Modi will have to step back to move ahead

    Shankaran Nambiar
    US efforts to pry open India’s markets will leave Modi in a difficult position with domestic business interests.
  • 12 Mar 2025
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States

    Trump’s tariffs: The smarter option for Australia to retaliate

    Jenny Gordon
    A tariff tit-for-tat game will only cost more. Cooperation with other countries is the better answer.
  • 12 Mar 2025
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    Steel yourselves, Trump’s worldwide tariffs threaten Australia more

    Roland Rajah
    The direct consequences of steel and aluminium restrictions are small – but the big picture cost to Australia lies in damage to the global economy.
  • 14 Feb 2025
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    The latest round of tariffs threats might be the least of our worries

    Jenny Gordon
    Trump looks to target the integrity of payments systems.
  • 14 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Trade
    • United States

    Aluminium exports under fire: Is Australia really to blame?

    Naoise McDonagh
    Trump’s position is built more on ambiguity than fact and that is where Australia must hone its argument.
  • 11 Feb 2025
    • Asean
    • Trade
    • Canada

    Canada should look to ASEAN

    Imran Shamsunahar
    Diversifying partners offers a path to autonomy.
  • 10 Feb 2025
    • Laos
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Trade

    Sharing Australia’s coffee culture with Southeast Asia

    Shaun Cameron
    And getting far more than change in return.
  • 6 Feb 2025
    • Australia's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • Trade

    Is Australia in the tariff firing line?

    Jenny Gordon
    Trump’s plans are less about economics and more about coercion.
  • 4 Feb 2025
    • Trade
    • The Americas

    Trump tariffs – madness, method, or mayhem?

    Jenny Gordon
    The more successful the strategy the lower the tariff revenue generated, and other economic realities…
  • 3 Feb 2025
    • Trade
    • United States

    Trump’s second trade war risks unwinding the benefit of his first

    Roland Rajah
    Developing countries and global supply chain resilience will be damaged by Trump’s “softer on China harder on others” approach.
  • 30 Jan 2025
    • China
    • Chinese Trade
    • Trade
    • United States

    China versus America on global trade

    Roland Rajah , Ahmed Albayrak
    China’s unbalanced global trading relationships have only deepened.
  • 30 Jan 2025
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States

    Trump’s trade policy: Risks for Australia

    Stephen Moran
    With tariff threats against both friend and foe, regional trade agreements will assume greater importance.
  • 22 Jan 2025
    • European Union
    • Russia
    • Energy
    • Trade

    A body blow to Putin’s “dirty fleet”

    Selwyn Parker
    Europe is increasingly cracking down on Russia’s sanction-busting oil trade.
  • 14 Jan 2025
    • Trade
    • The Americas
    • United States

    Trump goes deep into the Panama Canal

    Selwyn Parker
    But Panama, which is very proud of its operations, already has plans that would be in America’s interests.
  • 10 Jan 2025
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    The riotous return of the mercantilists

    Ved Shinde
    Trump’s tariffs mantra has changed the zeitgeist – but to a habit nations have long held.
  • 30 Dec 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    Whether EVs or solar panels, protectionism has the same distorting effect

    John Edwards
    Biden is playing election politics with tariffs on China’s electric cars, while Albanese’s solar subsidy plans might end up costing Australia.
  • 18 Dec 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Southeast Asia
    • Taiwan
    • Russia
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Technology
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Solomon Islands
    • United States

    What I’ll be watching for in 2025

    Susannah Patton , Melanie Pill , Sam Roggeveen , Robert Walker , Mihai Sora , Hilman Palaon , Oliver Nobetau
    Lowy researchers gaze at their crystal balls – with questions, more than answers, for the year ahead.
  • 10 Dec 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Technology
    • United States

    China’s EV manufacturing and Australia’s connected vehicles conundrum

    Henry Storey
    Canberra faces complicated trade-offs between competing domestic and foreign policy objectives.
  • 5 Dec 2024
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States

    The unilateral trading system: US trade policy for Trump, again

    Stephen Moran
    Trump wants systemic changes and his recent tariff threats show that no issue is off limits.
  • 14 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: It’s populists vs plutocrats in Trump Take 2

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s hopes of a modest economic impact from the Trump administration’s actions will require navigating the financial tensions at its heart.
  • 6 Nov 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Trade
    • Technology

    Indonesia takes a bite out of Apple, and sets itself a test for future investment

    Hilman Palaon
    The Local Content Requirement may only be a temporary setback for the tech giant, but it could raise concerns among potential foreign investors.
  • 4 Nov 2024
    • Asean
    • Cambodia
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Chinese Trade
    • Indonesia
    • Japan
    • Malaysia
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Trade

    ASEAN countries confront Chinese export glut

    Henry Storey
    Left unchecked, a saturation of Chinese goods may complicate what has otherwise been a very compelling ASEAN growth story.
  • 11 Oct 2024
    • China
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • United States

    The US wakes up to China’s latest threat – big ships

    Selwyn Parker
    Hardly a day goes by that Chinese shipyards don’t book another fat contract for a commercial vessel.
  • 26 Sep 2024
    • China
    • China-Japan Relations
    • Japan
    • Trade

    Yesterday’s stick, today’s carrot? China’s removal of the Japan seafood ban

    Victor Ferguson , Darren Lim
    Talk of easing import restrictions raises questions about Beijing’s motivations at this time.
  • 18 Sep 2024
    • Trade
    • Sex and Gender

    Breaking barriers: Enhancing women’s participation in trade across the Indo-Pacific

    Sunaina Kumar
    A gender-inclusive trade agenda will help create better jobs and unlock greater economic potential.
  • 6 Sep 2024
    • Defence & Security
    • Maritime Security
    • Trade
    • Iran
    • Yemen

    Iran’s shadow hand in Houthi Red Sea attacks

    Jonathan Campbell-James
    How the Houthis and Iranians work together isn’t absolutely clear – but stopping the threat to shipping requires more than shooting down incoming missiles and extends to disrupting an intelligence and targeting system.
  • 26 Aug 2024
    • Bangladesh
    • India
    • Trade

    The benefits of connection: India’s linkages to Bangladesh withstand local unrest

    Riya Sinha
    Roads and rail are the sinews of a strong relationship. But New Delhi cannot afford to be complacent about its regional ties.
  • 22 Aug 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: Playing defence with Prabowo

    Greg Earl
    New security cooperation with Indonesia does not make up for the slow progress in building fresh economic links.
  • 7 Aug 2024
    • China
    • Middle East Conflict
    • Trade
    • Iran
    • Israel

    China’s high-stakes diplomacy: Managing Middle Eastern turmoil

    Joseph Webster
    Will Beijing exert more effort to calm the region and protect its economic interests and credibility?
  • 30 Jul 2024
    • Global Economy
    • Global Financial Crisis
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Made in the USA: America’s gambit to reclaim industrial primacy

    Jack Goldsmith
    Dominance in next-generation industry relies on people and partnerships to short-circuit China’s leading edge.
  • 15 Jul 2024
    • Europe's Economy
    • European Union
    • United Kingdom
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • WTO

    What next for UK trade relations with the EU?

    Justin Brown
    The ushering in of new blood in Westminster promises less ideology on trade, but no fewer red lines.
  • 1 Jul 2024
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Chinese Trade
    • Trade

    China’s spluttering growth engines

    Henry Storey
    The distortions of Beijing’s unbalanced growth model are coming home to roost.
  • 25 Jun 2024
    • China
    • European Union
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Technology
    • United States

    Tariffs, data security and global collaboration: Navigating the geopolitics of electric vehicles

    Marina Yue Zhang
    Protectionism isn’t going to help with meeting global climate ambitions.
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