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…
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…
An inflection point in US trade policy
Author: William Reinsch, CSIS December 2022 highlighted how much US trade policy has changed in recent years. It is tempting…
Great power competition has shifted in the United States’ favour
Author: Ryan Hass, Brookings Institution At the start of 2022, China’s economy appeared strong, Beijing seemed to have contained the…
The return of Atlantic industrial policy challenges Asian trade efficiency
Author: Editorial Board, ANU The structural cracks in the global economy are becoming bigger and more dangerous. In October this…
Friendshoring and onshoring: protectionism, industrial policy and geopolitical blocs by another name
Author: Editorial Board, ANU It is one of the blessings of old friends, as Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, that…