Buy America and subsidies mix with national security to see off the rules based order
Author: Editorial Board, ANU Today the global trade system faces three systemic challenges. None are new, but strategic competition between…
Bhutan seeks out sustainable foreign investment
Authors: Mohammad Sultan Ahmad Ansari, Modern College of Business and Science and Shad Ahmad Khan, University of Buraimi Foreign Direct…
East Asia needs to tap into plurilateralism’s potential
Author: Robert Basedow, London School of Economics Multilateralism is now in crisis. The crisis manifests itself most forcefully in the…
China’s crackdown on flamboyant billionaires
Author: Martin Miszerak, SolBridge International School of Business In March 2023, China’s National People’s Congress announced the establishment of a…
Whitlam’s legacy in Australia–Vietnam relations 50 years on
Author: Derek McDougall, University of Melbourne After winning office in December 1972, former Australian Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam established…
A ‘protectionist’ United States still key to East Asia’s economy
Author: Tamas Meszaros, Keio University Protectionist trade policies and the lack of an economic agenda for East and Southeast Asia…
Insufficient preschool education in China needs reform
Author: Bingqin Li, UNSW Preschool education in China needs to improve in quality and shift away from quantitative growth. While…
The EU risks losing the contest for influence in Central Asia
Author: Donaev Mukhammadsodik, OSCE Academy The EU and China have become more dynamic players in Central Asia since the United…
Anwar Ibrahim returns to a changed economy
Author: Teck Chi Wong, University of Queensland During Anwar Ibrahim’s first stint as Malaysia’s finance minister in the 1990s, Putrajaya…
Asia’s response to US trashing of the rules-based international trading system
Author: Editorial Board, ANU The end of 2022 left no doubt that the Biden administration in Washington had joined its…