Economics

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Bernard Hoekman, European University Institute After two COVID-19-related postponements, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) 12th ministerial conference (MC12) was held in Geneva from 12–17 June 2022. Expectations for a…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Ken Heydon World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says the measures agreed upon at the 12th WTO ministerial conference (MC12) on 12 June ‘will make a difference to…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Lisa Toohey, University of Newcastle, Markus Wagner, University of Wollongong and Weihuan Zhou, UNSW The Australia–China relationship is in need of a reset, especially on the trade front. The…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU It is hard to imagine a more thorough stress test for globalisation than the double whammy of a once-in-a-century global pandemic followed in short order by…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Jayant Menon, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute The resilience of global supply chains in manufacturing has been under scrutiny following COVID-19 and geopolitical shocks. Global supply chains are robust or resilient…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Yasuyuki Todo, Waseda University Global supply chains are being reorganised as Western countries attempt to decouple from the Chinese economy and firms are increasingly aware of the risks of…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Hannah Elyse Sworn and Manoj Harjani, NTU Intellectual property (IP) has long been a sore point in relations between Washington and Beijing. US officials have repeatedly targeted China for…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU Japan is shrinking and ageing. The population fell by 618,000 last year and Japan’s society is the oldest in the world with almost 30 per cent…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Richard Katz, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs For six long months, the Kishida administration, aided by outside advisors from universities and new companies, toiled to translate Prime…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Toshiya Takahashi, Shoin University While the Japanese media were occupied by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Japan’s economic security bill passed without strong opposition in the Diet in May…