The widening conflict involving Iran is causing shipping disruptions that are threatening global fuel supplies. But this is only the latest reminder that economic vulnerability is strategic vulnerability. It reinforces that markets are now arenas …
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Amid alarm stemming from President Donald Trump’s on-and-off-again tariff rise this week, let’s not lose our ability to distinguish between a mere flesh wound and amputation. The administration’s decision to raise the global baseline tariff …
Economic coercion is rarely as dramatic as missiles or armies, but its consequences can be just as destabilising. The weaponisation of interdependence has become an increasingly potent tool of statecraft as globalisation has bound nations, …
From Washington to Beijing, tariffs and trade restrictions are being repurposed as tools of strategic competition, reshaping the global economy in the process. Economic coercion has emerged as one of the most potent tools, blurring …
Australia has weathered economic coercion before. Beijing’s tariffs on wine and barley, informal bans on coal and lobster, and tightened import inspections weren’t just trade spats. They were deliberate, politically motivated measures designed to exploit …