Tag Archive for: "economic policy"
Trump vs China, round two

In August 2019, amid an escalating trade war with China, then-US president Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets directing US companies to ‘immediately start looking for … alternative[s] to China’ and shift their …

Sri Lanka’s long road to recovery

The economic and political upheavals Sri Lanka has faced in recent years, including its 2022 debt default and the mass protests that ousted former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, serve as a stark reminder of the dangers …

Why a strategic fleet won’t work for Australia

Failure has been the fate of government-owned or -subsidised fleets, and protected shipping markets, throughout Australian history. History, economics, shipping trends and strategy tell us that the government’s strategic fleet policy will also fail—because the …

Thirty years of APEC summits

The APEC summit in San Francisco this week offers poignant echoes and painful contrasts with the first summit in Seattle 30 years ago. Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation is always ‘four adjectives in search of a noun’, …