22 Aug 2024
Economic diplomacy: Playing defence with Prabowo
New security cooperation with Indonesia does not make up for the slow progress in building fresh economic links.
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27 Jun 2024
Economic diplomacy: Ringfencing the Lucky Country
Some key Australian economic figures are embracing the new economics of national resilience in distinctive ways. -
29 May 2024
A growth agenda for India-Australia economic ties
Recent steps forward on the trade front have also cleared the way for greater ambition in the partnership. -
28 May 2024
The cultural change needed to align security and economics
How the world works has changed, and so must we. -
21 May 2024
Putting dollars behind “all tools of statecraft”
The budget papers offer a chance to assess the government’s claims against fiscal reality. -
16 May 2024
Economic diplomacy: Budgeting for deglobalisation
Keeping up with the worldwide shift to industry policy is stretching boundaries of both economics and diplomacy. -
15 May 2024
Australia’s new gas strategy makes for flawed foreign policy
Simultaneously advancing energy security in Asia and climate security in the Pacific is both possible and desirable. -
13 May 2024
Made in Australia meets China’s export juggernaut
China’s irrepressible appetite for Australian resources will severely complicate the country’s manufacturing renaissance. -
2 May 2024
Economic diplomacy: It’s nostalgists vs strategists
As a new Treasurer claims a geo-economic legacy in industrial policy, his predecessor’s once shiny G20 triumph has been dumped. -
22 Apr 2024
Ensuring the “Future Made in Australia Act” doesn’t add to a global subsidy arms race
Let alone widen Australia’s economic and social divides. -
4 Apr 2024
Economic diplomacy: Hanging on in ASEAN
Australia faces growing competition for influence among its old friends in Southeast Asia as China’s power rises. -
22 Mar 2024
Australia confronts an Indonesian nickel glut
Competition over strategic commodities may increasingly define the economic relationship between the two producers. -
23 Feb 2024
Economic diplomacy: Strategic funding comes in from the cold
A new review may cast a revealing light on how the government uses third-party institutions to shape the country’s strategic thinking. -
9 Feb 2024
Middle East turmoil and a US pause offer Australia LNG opportunities
On the way to net-zero, there is a chance to help bolster Asia’s regional energy security. -
7 Feb 2024
The role of Singapore, Malaysia and Australia in ASEAN centrality
Cooperation, especially on security and the economy, is key to countering pressure from outside the bloc. -
2 Feb 2024
What a new Indonesian president may mean for Australia
People exchanges between the two countries will deepen the economic partnership, regardless of leadership change. -
18 Jan 2024
Economic diplomacy: To market, to market, with China
New Cabinet papers reveal the origins of trade pragmatism and the Coalition’s embrace of communism with market characteristics. -
17 Jan 2024
Australia and Africa: Economic diplomacy is out of sync with investment ties
While other partners are taking care of business, Australia lacks the trade support it needs to thrive. -
7 Dec 2023
Economic diplomacy: Pulling the right global value chain
Australia is now a big exporter of “bottleneck products” in a deglobalising world, just as it tries to rebuild manufacturing. -
6 Nov 2023
Fighting risk in everything, everywhere, all at once
Most government institutions are not designed to consider more than their portfolio of interests – and that doesn’t work in a more complex world. -
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18 Oct 2023
Australia must play the geoeconomics game, or risk being side-lined
The world is moving away from a rules-based order and towards power politics. Is Canberra ready? -
3 Oct 2023
Five reasons why the government mustn’t cool its heels on an “Australian IRA”
What cause could be more important than the economic, energy, and environmental security of the nation and the future of the planet? -
29 Sep 2023
Great expectations: Australia’s elusive Southeast Asia vision
Diplomacy, economic partnerships, copper mines and instant noodles - the Moore Report has much to reflect on. -
15 Sep 2023
Critical minerals, critical choices: Australia’s role in shaping the green revolution
“Resource nationalism” only poses a threat to mining policy if the government pretends it’s not happening. -
1 Sep 2023
The Philippines and Australia: A new golden era of strategic relations?
Canberra’s defence ties with Manila have gone from strength to strength. Now it’s time to step up economic linkages. -
31 Aug 2023
Economic diplomacy: Spirit of Australia charts a fresh course
The government is fashioning a more interventionist economic leg to the new amity between its aid policy, regional diplomacy and military spending. -
13 Jun 2023
The end of the neo-liberal order?
With a new consensus in Washington, it’s time for Canberra to consider a shake-up of misguided industrial policy. -
11 May 2023
Economic diplomacy: Paying for a new security era
The budget contains some tantalising hints about future foreign policy, offset by some doleful old realities. -
1 May 2023
Finding opportunity in Asia’s net-zero transition
Australia will miss out if it doesn’t prepare for lower coal and gas exports. -
17 Mar 2023
The limits on Australia’s submarine industry
Long before the last boat is delivered, the business will be winding down. -
2 Feb 2023
Economic diplomacy: Diversification is hard to do
Treasurer Jim Chalmers should rise above outdated jibes at the IMF to justify his aims for a new values-based economy. -
8 Sep 2022
Economic diplomacy: Nation building at home and abroad
A jobs summit highlighted the challenges in crafting a foreign policy for the middle class and balanced development aid. -
23 Aug 2022
Asia skills critical to Australia’s economic future and security
Regional expertise needs to extend well beyond base literacy and towards a more Asia-capable workforce. -
11 Aug 2022
Economic diplomacy: No free lunches for national security
New foreign investment rules, nuisance tariffs and supply chains are all under scrutiny by the Productivity Commission. -
9 May 2022
The time is right for Australia to forge stronger ties with Europe
A new world has created new opportunities in energy, security and diplomacy that Canberra should grab without delay. -
20 Apr 2022
Strategic divergence: Australia’s Southeast Asia challenge
Australia’s next government needs to find ways to relate to the region that don’t depend on geopolitical alignment. -
10 Feb 2022
Economic diplomacy: Mission critical as Australia’s own BRI gains pace
Australia’s new embrace of South Korea in minerals, defence, and trade is well-timed as the country catches up to Japan. -
27 Jan 2022
Bitcoin vs the IMF, and other great expectations
A roundup of recent economic events foreshadows a year of flux and reinvention, from Europe to the Pacific. -
28 Dec 2021
China’s economic punishment – Best of The Interpreter 2021
Beijing sought to make Australia pay as a diplomatic freeze deepened. But the sanction didn’t entirely go to plan. -
21 Dec 2021
Economic diplomacy: Retro shopping beats the supply chain crisis
WWW Santa beware. The gift trade is still subject to the old-school padded tromp of shoe leather. -
30 Nov 2021
Time to step up on global kleptocracy
Among other vital issues, Australia’s interests rely on the country taking a tough stance on corrupt wealth. -
22 Oct 2021
China’s economic sanctions made Australia more confident
Greed hasn’t left Canberra cowering in the face of Beijing’s attempted punishment. -
10 Sep 2021
Candour, at last, on China – but then what?
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has made explicit Australia’s challenge. The next step is ensuring business knows the plan. -
9 Sep 2021
Economic diplomacy: Australia Inc’s new world order
Is “China plus” the answer to fading US global hegemony? -
3 Jun 2021
Economic diplomacy: Under the doona, Australian investors dump China
Australian investors are pulling out of China just as the country has become the largest recipient of FDI. -
20 May 2021
Economic diplomacy: Budgeting for China and the price that matters
China isn’t mentioned nearly as much in the government’s latest budget papers, but its presence looms throughout. -
6 May 2021
Economic diplomacy: Patent politics and trade deal twists
President Biden moves to suspend vaccine patents, RCEP ramps up, IA-CEPA gets a lesson and US dollar reserves tank. -
12 Apr 2021
Covid recovery, in Australia and the world
Drawing from his new Lowy Institute Paper, John Edwards looks at the fallout of the pandemic and where things are going. -
9 Apr 2021
Economic diplomacy: Global tax, education exports and Team Australia
Levelling the field with a global minimum tax, rethinking student fee revenue, and getting APEC back in the room.