How Southeast Asian nations respond to Donald Trump’s economic coercion matters for the world and Australia.

A massive mortgage reduces our willingness to take risks, and that can include anything from travel to investing overseas.

The new US tariffs are so high and wide-ranging that they represent an economic experiment.

Big budget deficits thanks to election promises leave little room to move ahead of a gathering tariff war.

Economic Diplomacy: Doing the sums for a tight federal election and a Trump trade revolution all at once was bound to be challenging.

A housing crisis might seem like a domestic problem, but there are significant foreign policy wins on offer.

A tariff tit-for-tat game will only cost more. Cooperation with other countries is the better answer.

The direct consequences of steel and aluminium restrictions are small – but the big picture cost to Australia lies in damage to the global economy.

Australia’s retirement savings pool is an important new economic relations lever, but it can only be rolled out so many times.

Trump looks to target the integrity of payments systems.

With tariff threats against both friend and foe, regional trade agreements will assume greater importance.

With a change of guard in the White House, Australia could take its lead from Chifley’s art of the deal.

From a new measure of business competitiveness to revamped supply chains, global agencies are slowly adjusting to post-pandemic life.

From ANZUS, Indonesia, regional business and media reporting, Penny Wong seems to have legacy in mind.

Playing a role in Southeast Asia’s green energy transition is an opportunity Australia must not let pass.

Divining economic statecraft is animating international relations roundtables but unnerving the money managers.

Converts to industry policy will find success by drawing on the experience of success in other countries.

The ushering in of new blood in Westminster promises less ideology on trade, but no fewer red lines.

Some key Australian economic figures are embracing the new economics of national resilience in distinctive ways.

Is it any wonder the public is often bemused about the merits of trade policy?

As a new Treasurer claims a geo-economic legacy in industrial policy, his predecessor’s once shiny G20 triumph has been dumped.

Let alone widen Australia’s economic and social divides.

The government wants to manufacture an election winning industry policy that also sounds tough on various foreign partners.

Australia faces growing competition for influence among its old friends in Southeast Asia as China’s power rises.

The failure of FTA talks between New Delhi and London rings with an unmistakable tone of irony.

New Cabinet papers reveal the origins of trade pragmatism and the Coalition’s embrace of communism with market characteristics.

Australia is now a big exporter of “bottleneck products” in a deglobalising world, just as it tries to rebuild manufacturing.

An alternative route to the Strait of Malacca offers China, and others, a safer, faster and more efficient trade route.

Undervaluing what business achieves internationally as if somehow having a cost at home makes for bad policy.

The world is moving away from a rules-based order and towards power politics. Is Canberra ready?

A stand-off over perceived risks and rewards has long hampered Australia’s economic engagement in the region but a new strategy marks a strong step forward.

Washington’s geopolitical strategy threatens to entrench economic hierarchies and undermine the global green transition.

Australia seems to be treading carefully around the G7’s agreement to de-risk dependence on the region’s biggest economy.

Australia will miss out if it doesn’t prepare for lower coal and gas exports.

Sovereign capability is the government’s answer to an old political trade-off in the face of geoeconomic fragmentation.

Australia should launch a major initiative to support investment with new business prospects in the region.

Is the New Zealand–European Union free trade agreement an omen for Australia’s negotiations?

A new study reveals difficult trade-offs between development spending on governance and the decline of democracy.

Abe Shinzo’s passing and the Timor oil spy case dismissal reveal new thinking about what national security means.

How does Australia confront the possibility of Beijing’s economic coercion?

The unwieldy sounding AANZFTA is a surprise hit with Australian business.

Business has been called on to be a key player in an intriguing, new and more contestable approach to intelligence gathering and analysis.