Global Economy
Jim Kim quits the World Bank, an unexpected gift to Donald Trump
Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, has announced that he will retire. This is far earlier than expected. Jim Kim was first appointed in 2011 and was re-elected in 2016 for…
Money talks, and Australia doesn’t have a G8 voice
British think-tank, the Henry Jackson Society, recently released its Audit of Geopolitical Capability, which it describes as providing the “fullest picture of who’s up and who’s…
Best of The Interpreter 2018: The US-China trade war
In recent months, the US-China relationship has accelerated from rivalry toward adversarial antagonism. In the US, a policy shift on China has been propelled by a sense that…
Economic diplomacy: how the world changed in 2018
Geo-economics arrives
When former US president Barack Obama last tried to reshape Asia in 2016, he embraced the traditional language of liberal multilateralism and talked of…
US-China tensions: is this about economics or security?
The administration has recognised that the true challenge China presents is not fundamentally one of a rising power threatening to replace an established power. Instead it is the…
The true cost of fast fashion
This article is based on episode 10 of the Good Will Hunters podcast, featuring an interview with Clare Press, sustainability editor-at-large at Vogue Australia…
Xi and Trump at G20: A tariff truce
This truce is by no means the end of trade tensions between China and the US.
Over what was undoubtedly a delicious dinner last Saturday night on the sidelines of the G20 meeting…
Logic at the wayside at G20
The theme for the upcoming G20 Leaders Meeting to be held in Argentina is “Building Consensus for Fair and Sustainable Development”. As the “premier forum for international…
“America First” and global economic governance
President Donald Trump’s stated objective is “America first”. What might this isolationist mantra mean for global economic governance, which is the economic component of the …
Economic diplomacy: Indonesian trade, RCEP and PNG aid
Plan B for Indonesia
An interesting division is emerging between the federal government and a potential future Labor administration over the value of free trade agreements (FTAs)…