WTO
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the WTO, and what’s next?
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari fully supported the candidature of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Even though the two are the…
As a national champion departs the scene, a China food fight looms
Food for thought
Picking winners and sacrificing national interests are two things that conservative politicians usually like to hold out as anathema.
But it says a lot about…
Economic diplomacy: Navigating Asia’s trade tangle and a NSW “step-up”
Finding RCEP
India might have spurned the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, but its parable of the blind men and the elephant still provides the best way of…
Economic diplomacy: A headless WTO, selling the Asian farm
New world order
The leadership of the World Trade Organisation may be the first test of whether the world can move on with normal life amid the divisions and recriminations as…
Global trade policy at a lull, but for how long?
Like a sailing ship caught in the doldrums, the international trade policy world seems stagnant and listless. Is there any fresh wind to be detected? Can we create some movement?
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Interactives
China and the Rules‑Based Order
Seven experts debate China’s approach to the rules‑based international order
Commentary
Business, government must engage on international trade policy
Originally published in The Australian.
Analyses
The World Trade Organization: An Optimistic Pre-mortem in Hopes of Resurrection
At a time when stability and predictability are needed most, the body at the heart of the rules-based trading system — the World Trade Organization — is reeling from far more than…
Managing Chinese economic risks means more than diversification
There is growing support for diversifying Australia’s economic ties with China in order to reduce the risks of economic coercion. The main bilateral economic ties are through…
The world can still prosper from free trade
Did anyone notice that the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the revised NAFTA, entered into force on 1 July? If not, do not be too concerned, as the Covid-19 crisis…