Australia’s economic security debate still focuses on the physical elements of supply chains: mines, ports, processing plants, shipping routes and stockpiles. Beijing has moved further. China increasingly treats knowledge about supply chains as a strategic …
Australia’s prosperity runs on systems that look permanent but depend on inputs arriving from beyond its shores. While the ships keep coming, that dependence is invisible. When they stop, it becomes the only thing that …
For decades, Australia assumed economic power flowed from geology. Resource wealth delivered export earnings, government revenue and strategic confidence. The emergence of China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG) over the past four years suggests otherwise. In …
Dennis Voznesenski’s War and Wheat examines the complex relationship between grain markets and global conflict. Amid an increasingly precarious global security situation, the book – written by one of Australia’s most respected agricultural economists – …
Washington and Manila have moved from intent to design, announcing plans for a 4,000-acre (16 square km) economic security zone to anchor allied supply chains in the Philippines. That move should inspire Australia’s approach to …
