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  • 13 May 2024
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Chinese Trade
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Trade

    Made in Australia meets China’s export juggernaut

    Henry Storey
    China’s irrepressible appetite for Australian resources will severely complicate the country’s manufacturing renaissance.
  • 4 Apr 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • International Public Opinion
    • Public Opinion Polling

    Economic diplomacy: Hanging on in ASEAN

    Greg Earl
    Australia faces growing competition for influence among its old friends in Southeast Asia as China’s power rises.
  • 2 Apr 2024
    • Japan
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Multilateral Development Banks

    Australia’s Southeast Asia trade stumbling block

    Maxfield Peterson
    Canberra must move fast on a formal information-sharing facility to reach its regional economic and foreign policy goals.
  • 22 Mar 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China-Australia Relations

    Australia confronts an Indonesian nickel glut

    Henry Storey
    Competition over strategic commodities may increasingly define the economic relationship between the two producers.
  • 23 Feb 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Defence & Security

    Economic diplomacy: Strategic funding comes in from the cold

    Greg Earl
    A new review may cast a revealing light on how the government uses third-party institutions to shape the country’s strategic thinking.
  • 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.
  • 17 Jan 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Africa

    Australia and Africa: Economic diplomacy is out of sync with investment ties

    Ian Satchwell
    While other partners are taking care of business, Australia lacks the trade support it needs to thrive.
  • 11 Dec 2023
    • China's Economy
    • China's Government
    • Chinese Trade
    • Taiwan
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Diplomacy

    Don’t let China veto Australia’s ties with Taiwan

    Benjamin Herscovitch
    Canberra should not let increased trade and political engagement with Taipei be held hostage to Beijing’s sensitivities.
  • 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.
  • 18 Oct 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Australia must play the geoeconomics game, or risk being side-lined

    Naoise McDonagh
    The world is moving away from a rules-based order and towards power politics. Is Canberra ready?
  • 29 Sep 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Diplomacy

    Great expectations: Australia’s elusive Southeast Asia vision

    Stephen Grenville
    Diplomacy, economic partnerships, copper mines and instant noodles - the Moore Report has much to reflect on.
  • 14 Sep 2023
    • Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Sustainability

    More than just rice: Asia’s food supply anxieties

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    Most economies in Southeast Asia are net food importers. Is now the time for Australia to step up its export production?
  • 1 Sep 2023
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Defence Force

    The Philippines and Australia: A new golden era of strategic relations?

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Canberra’s defence ties with Manila have gone from strength to strength. Now it’s time to step up economic linkages.
  • 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.
  • 10 Oct 2022
    • Australia's Trade
    • European Union
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade

    EU in the driver’s seat on Indo-Pacific trade deals

    Justin Brown
    Is the New Zealand–European Union free trade agreement an omen for Australia’s negotiations?
  • 23 Aug 2022
    • Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade

    Asia skills critical to Australia’s economic future and security

    Leigh Howard
    Regional expertise needs to extend well beyond base literacy and towards a more Asia-capable workforce.
  • 26 May 2022
    • Australia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Trade

    Where to for trade policy?

    Jenny Gordon
    Australia is building the micro foundations for global cooperation.
  • 9 May 2022
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • European Union
    • United Kingdom
    • France

    The time is right for Australia to forge stronger ties with Europe

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    A new world has created new opportunities in energy, security and diplomacy that Canberra should grab without delay.
  • 5 May 2022
    • Trade
    • Australia's Trade
    • IMF
    • Asean
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Trade shifts challenge a new government

    Greg Earl
    “Friendshoring” offers a half-way house between reshoring production and diversifying markets in a deglobalising world.
  • 20 Apr 2022
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • Asean
    • Australia and Asia

    Strategic divergence: Australia’s Southeast Asia challenge

    Susannah Patton
    Australia’s next government needs to find ways to relate to the region that don’t depend on geopolitical alignment.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 23 Sep 2021
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: After AUKUS in trade, aid and technology

    Greg Earl
    Commercial links may be China’s response to the submarine deal.
  • 3 Jun 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Under the doona, Australian investors dump China

    Greg Earl
    Australian investors are pulling out of China just as the country has become the largest recipient of FDI.
  • 20 May 2021
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: Budgeting for China and the price that matters

    Greg Earl
    China isn’t mentioned nearly as much in the government’s latest budget papers, but its presence looms throughout.
  • 6 May 2021
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • United States
    • India-Australia Relations
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • China
    • Technology
    • International law

    Economic diplomacy: Patent politics and trade deal twists

    Greg Earl
    President Biden moves to suspend vaccine patents, RCEP ramps up, IA-CEPA gets a lesson and US dollar reserves tank.
  • 8 Apr 2021
    • Trade
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China
    • Coronavirus

    The big bark but small bite of China’s trade coercion

    Roland Rajah
    Targeted sanctions on Australian exports have affected billions in trade, but the real damage has been limited.
  • 26 Oct 2020
    • Trade
    • Australia's Trade
    • Energy
    • Coronavirus
    • Human rights

    Crew-change crisis risks supply chains – and lives

    Christiaan De Beukelaer
    Some 400,000 seafarers are currently stuck on ships, past the end of their contracts, unable to go home.
  • 10 Sep 2020
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • India's Economy
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • Coronavirus

    Economic diplomacy: Borders, barriers and obstacles

    Greg Earl
    Reshoring incentives gather steam, India’s RCEP regrets sink in, and Indonesia’s stimulus spending gets stuck.
  • 26 Aug 2020
    • Trade
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia

    A post-pandemic trade revival

    Madeleine King
    The shadow trade minister sets out a four-point plan for Australia to turn an unparalleled crisis into an opportunity.
  • 30 Jul 2020
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • Coronavirus

    Economic diplomacy: Post-Covid trade, from decoupling to wet markets

    Greg Earl
    Recent parliamentary submissions offer a window into the opportunities and risks when the country re-emerges more fully.
  • 22 Jun 2020
    • International Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • United Kingdom

    Australia-UK trade agreement: Good, boring policy

    Dmitry Grozoubinski
    A deal between two liberalised economies on opposite sides of the globe can only improve a small number of pain points.
  • 25 May 2020
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia

    How is an advanced Australia faring in the Asian century?

    Tim Harcourt
    The power of proximity has long surpassed the “tyranny of distance” in Australian trade relations.
  • 28 Feb 2020
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade

    Car manufacturing and Australia: Nothing ventured, nothing gained

    Nicholas Gruen
    What might have been, had Australia had a crack at becoming a strategic hub for niche “world cars”.
  • 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.
  • 23 May 2019
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Australia's Trade

    Economic diplomacy: New trade agenda, Chinese rhinos, Made in ASEAN

    Greg Earl
    A government promise to cover 90% of Australia’s trade with FTAs went largely unheralded during the election campaign.
  • 21 Sep 2018
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia

    Spilt milk: protecting exports during drought

    Tristan Kenderdine
    Helping Australian dairy farmers in hard times is a job for insurance, not subsidies that could have international cost.
  • 14 Mar 2018
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • Australia's Trade

    CPTPP wobbles over foreign investor rights

    Stephen Grenville
    After years of negotiation and drama, the revived agreement on balance is probably advantageous for global trade.
  • 19 Jan 2018
    • Global Economy
    • The Trans-Pacific Partnership
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy

    Behind the Australia–Canada ‘wine war’

    Mike Callaghan
    Given Australia's disappointment over Canada's last-minute TPP snub, Trade Minister Steven Ciobo likely had no hesitation in lodging the complaint over wine.
  • 14 Sep 2017
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy

    Staying competitive in a global economy

    Alan Oxley
    Uncertainty in Australian federal politics has spawned narrowly-focused political interests and an anti-free trade sentiment is also manifest.
  • 24 Aug 2017
    • Australia's Trade
    • Japan

    Australia-Japan trade relations: From mines to the lab and back

    Steven Ciobo
    The stability of Australia’s commercial relationship with Japan conceals some significant developments.
  • 24 Aug 2017
    • Asia
    • Australia's Trade
    • Trade and Investment in the Asia Pacific

    Economic diplomacy brief: Who’s our biggest partner, Asian business capability, Globalisation 2.0

    Greg Earl
    A different angle on the US vs China economic partner debate, why private companies do better in Asia, and the new version of globalisation as per McKinsey's.
  • 13 Mar 2017
    • Australia's Trade

    Prioritising trading blocs over nation states

    Tristan Kenderdine
    Nation states, despite their political tenacity, are an economic anachronism.

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