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  • 8 Oct 2025
    • Asia
    • Indonesia
    • Europe
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Europe notches an early win in Indonesian free trade deal

    Henry Storey
    EU trade with Southeast Asia has been undercooked, but a recent agreement augurs well for others in the pipeline.
  • 26 Sep 2025
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Space exploration
    • United Nations

    Why we need international institutions…

    Jenny Gordon
    …and how to rebuild them in an era of great power competition.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 30 May 2024
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Review

    Fibs, squibs, and trading digs

    Justin Brown
    Is it any wonder the public is often bemused about the merits of trade policy?
  • 18 Jan 2024
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: To market, to market, with China

    Greg Earl
    New Cabinet papers reveal the origins of trade pragmatism and the Coalition’s embrace of communism with market characteristics.
  • 7 Dec 2023
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Geo-economics
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: Pulling the right global value chain

    Greg Earl
    Australia is now a big exporter of “bottleneck products” in a deglobalising world, just as it tries to rebuild manufacturing.
  • 9 Nov 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Economic diplomacy: Labor’s green security state rises

    Greg Earl
    From Chinese wind turbines to temporary foreign workers, Australia faces difficult intersections between domestic and foreign policy.
  • 26 Jul 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • Free Trade
    • Geo-economics
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States
    • US Economy

    A return to old-school mercantilism?

    Ved Shinde
    Suspicion and economic competition are forcing states back in time, with protectionism and self-sufficiency the new norm.
  • 15 May 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • China's Government
    • China-India Relations
    • India
    • WTO

    Foreign policy China-style: beyond protocol and alcohol

    Ved Shinde
    Southeast Asian nations are realising that forming balancing coalitions will be their best bet in dealing with Beijing.
  • 2 Mar 2023
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • IMF
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: Arming up for war and trade

    Greg Earl
    Sovereign capability is the government’s answer to an old political trade-off in the face of geoeconomic fragmentation.
  • 20 Feb 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Indonesia’s uncertain climb up the nickel value chain

    Kyunghoon Kim
    Demand for EVs is driving domestic and foreign direct investment in the country’s minerals sector. But caution is needed.
  • 23 Jan 2023
    • China
    • Chinese Trade
    • Australia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO

    How will China’s punitive trade restrictions against Australia end?

    Justin Brown
    Good vibes could turn into a solution – but if China demands a quid pro quo, reaching agreement will be complex.
  • 15 Dec 2022
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: From pollie crises to polycrisis

    Greg Earl
    There are political bunfights, strategic challenges and wicked problems, but let’s not “overcrisify” the world.
  • 23 Mar 2022
    • Trade
    • Australia's Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia

    Trade policy agenda facing new drivers

    Justin Brown
    More than ever, Australia’s national security and economic resilience goals need integrating with smart trade policy.
  • 2 Dec 2021
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Free trade vs economic resilience

    Greg Earl
    From Chinese iPhones to university classrooms, trade in services is being redefined.
  • 1 Nov 2021
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China
    • Geo-economics

    Markets and resilience in the face of economic coercion

    Darren Lim , Victor Ferguson , Scott Waldron
    Calls for a “China plus” strategy rightfully draws business attention to the need to manage rising geoeconomic risks.
  • 1 Oct 2021
    • Trade
    • Australia's Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia

    WTO dispute settlement: why Australia bothers

    Ravi Kewalram
    Australia had been an infrequent user of this tool. But the system is now more relevant than ever.
  • 15 Jul 2021
    • WTO
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Migration

    Economic diplomacy: Little Australia spends slowly in the Pacific

    Greg Earl
    Can a step-up speed up? And what of the economic and cultural benefits of migration in Covid times?
  • 15 Jul 2021
    • WTO

    EU the new kingpin in global trade order

    Kristen Hopewell
    The world moves on, while a crippled Appellate Body takes the US with it.
  • 17 Jun 2021
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • WTO

    New push for WTO trade reform

    Joanna Hewitt
    Protectionism must be relegated to the rear view mirror – fixes in agriculture negotiations might open the road ahead.
  • 19 May 2021
    • WTO
    • Coronavirus

    Patent waiver for vaccines is a plus, but no panacea

    Roland Rajah
    Lifting IP rights won’t kill innovation. It also won’t automatically get more vaccine doses where they’re needed.
  • 25 Mar 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Australia in the World
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: Deploying soft power and the future of trade

    Greg Earl
    Not-so-negative globalism, the not-so-predictable future of supply chains, and maybe not much change on China.
  • 4 Mar 2021
    • WTO
    • Africa

    Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the WTO, and what’s next?

    Anthony Maliki
    It was a high hurdle to take charge, but Nigeria’s former finance minister has only just begun her run.
  • 3 Dec 2020
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • IMF
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China

    As a national champion departs the scene, a China food fight looms

    Greg Earl
    Picking winners? In this case, one sort of export interest seems to have suffered due to support for another.
  • 19 Nov 2020
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • South China Sea
    • WTO
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Navigating Asia’s trade tangle and a NSW “step-up”

    Greg Earl
    Plus, revisiting assumptions that China would be reluctant to interfere with South China Sea trade routes.
  • 5 Nov 2020
    • Global Economy
    • China's Economy
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: A headless WTO, selling the Asian farm

    Greg Earl
    The US blocks a consensus candidate at WTO, Australian businesses offloading in Asia and the Ant float banned.
  • 7 Oct 2020
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Coronavirus

    Global trade policy at a lull, but for how long?

    Dick Grant
    With economies and trade meetings cut down by Covid‑19, and political uncertainty in the air, we’re at a standstill.
  • 28 Jul 2020
    • Trade
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China

    Managing Chinese economic risks means more than diversification

    Heath Baker
    How does Australia confront the possibility of Beijing’s economic coercion?
  • 24 Jul 2020
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Coronavirus

    The world can still prosper from free trade

    Dick Grant
    Trade negotiators must think that theirs is an unhappy lot. But they keep trying – as they should.
  • 4 Jun 2020
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • Coronavirus

    Economic diplomacy: Asian investment, super tension & the WTO hot seat

    Greg Earl
    World trade could be set to fall as much as 30% this year. Who is going to be in charge of fixing the problem?
  • 13 May 2020
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Australia
    • China
    • Coronavirus

    In beef over barley, Chinese economic coercion cuts against the grain

    Darren Lim , Victor Ferguson
    Beijing has become adept at punishing countries with legally “dressed up” informal economic sanctions.
  • 28 Apr 2020
    • Global Economy
    • IMF
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • New Zealand

    New Zealand: Running the marathon

    Dick Grant
    Having started well, there’s a lot to happen yet. And so far this race is not a team event, internationally.
  • 10 Dec 2019
    • WTO

    Murder on the Multilateral Express

    Henry Gao
    With the Appellate Body of the Word Trade Organisation about to seize, members must decide how to get back on the rails.
  • 5 Dec 2019
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australia's Trade
    • Free Trade
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: Free trade disputes, WTO appeals, DFAT on China

    Greg Earl
    A shortage of judges on the WTO trade court is bringing appeals to a halt, just as trade disputes are on the rise.
  • 10 Oct 2019
    • Global Economy
    • IMF
    • WTO
    • Asean

    Economic diplomacy: Auditing globalism, trade woes, ASEAN’s future

    Greg Earl
    Measuring and managing the world economy – and Australia’s place – sees a pushback to a “negative globalism” mantra.
  • 26 Nov 2015
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • IMF
    • WTO

    Decoding China's GOOD approach to the G20

    Hannah Wurf
  • 3 Mar 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • Trade
    • Australian Perspective
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • WTO
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership be a good deal for Australia?

    Stephen Grenville
  • 10 Nov 2014
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • WTO

    APEC in Beijing: Too many trade initiatives and too little progress

    Stephen Grenville
  • 20 Oct 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • Global Economic Governance
    • WTO

    The WTO is in big trouble

    Mike Callaghan
    The World Trade Organisation director Roberto Azevedo says the institution has descended into 'paralysis'.
  • 17 Jun 2014
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • Global Economic Governance
    • IMF
    • WTO

    Global financial crisis: Did the system really work?

    Stephen Grenville

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