Australia stands at a crossroads where ambition, fiscal restraint and strategic necessity intersect. The Future Made in Australia agenda, once a rallying cry for sovereign capability and clean-energy transformation, is now the test case for …
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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 …
New York Times columnist David Brooks once remarked that Donald Trump is the wrong answer to the right questions—a sentiment that captures the core challenge facing US policy in East Asia. Trump correctly identified the …
Australia in 2025 stands at a perilous crossroads. Once-clear boundaries between economic prosperity and national security have blurred. The collision of severe geoeconomic headwinds with escalating military tensions and rapid and diffused technological advancement demands immediate, unwavering, …