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China eyes African prospects to iron out trade tension with Australia
China eyes African prospects to iron out trade tension with Australia
Growing Sino-Australian diplomatic and trade disputes have led to Chinese import bans on certain Australian products, but iron ore – Australia’s biggest export to China – has…
Book review: The making of Putin’s Russia
Book review: The making of Putin’s Russia
Book Review: Catherine Belton, Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West (HarperCollins, 2020) Last week, the Russian people voted to approve a…
COVIDcast: The future of globalisation
COVIDcast: The future of globalisation
In this episode of COVIDcast, Roland Rajah, Lowy Institute lead economist, sat down with Pascal Lamy to discuss the future of globalisation. Lamy has served at the peak of global…
Emerging From COVID: Policy Responses To The Pandemic
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Emerging From COVID: Policy Responses To The Pandemic
In this new feature, Lowy Institute experts provide policy recommendations for Australia to address issues that are critical to our nation’s — and the world’s —…
Finding compromise in the Chagos Islands saga
Finding compromise in the Chagos Islands saga
The Chagos Archipelago of 54 islands, formerly administered as a dependency of the British Colony of Mauritius, was excised from Mauritius by the UK in 1965, three years before…
Book review: What’s holding China’s economy back?
Book review: What’s holding China’s economy back?
Book Review: Dexter Roberts The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World (St Martin’s Press, 2020) With the US, Brazil and many European…
Culture, constitution and controversy in Samoa
Culture, constitution and controversy in Samoa
Fifty-eight years after Samoa became an independent state, it has been promised a new court giving Samoan customs a rightful place in law. It is worth considering why has this has…
Australia-UK trade agreement: Good, boring policy
Australia-UK trade agreement: Good, boring policy
Australia and the UK kicked off free trade agreement negotiations on 17 June to speeches and video presentations so triumphant as to border on self-parody. Yet for all the…
Closing the book on Asia
Closing the book on Asia
This is not a propitious time to proclaim to the world that Australians are not interested in India, Japan, Korea and all the nations of mainland Southeast Asia. That, however, is…
Public holiday: Queen’s Birthday long weekend
Public holiday: Queen’s Birthday long weekend
Monday is a public holiday for the Queen’s letters … [sorry] … Queen’s Birthday long-weekend in (most of) Australia. Normal publishing will resume on Tuesday. The…