Greg Earl
Biography
Publications
Greg Earl was the deputy editor, opinion editor, national affairs editor and Asia Pacific editor of The Australian Financial Review. He spent more than a decade as reporter based in Jakarta, Tokyo and New York. He is a member of the Australia ASEAN Council board and the ANU Indonesia Project advisory board. He is researching a book about Australia and Asia.
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Favorites of 2017: Pachinko
An immigrant Korean family’s journey from Japanese colonisation to modern life via the pachinko parlours in Japan.
![Economic diplomacy brief: The business end of the Foreign Policy White Paper](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/33952790650_38380b4ee9_k.jpg?itok=NuD0tbfP)
Economic diplomacy brief: The business end of the Foreign Policy White Paper
Three analyses of Asia's business environment have highlighted the economic diplomacy challenges involved in reaping the White Paper's promised opportunity.
![Economic diplomacy brief: Geo-economics as the new Great Game](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/6361076183_5c804a1fe0_o-min.jpg?itok=q4LYH1sJ)
Economic diplomacy brief: Geo-economics as the new Great Game
Forget the China-US economic comparison. Will Australia cope when Indonesia's economy is bigger?
![Economic diplomacy brief: Indo-Pacific v America First](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-485161754-2-min.jpg?itok=SChJPTuz)
Economic diplomacy brief: Indo-Pacific v America First
A strongman song and dance as the region puts on a summit season show.
![Trump’s Asia trip kicks off with Abe meeting](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-869724944%20copy%202.jpg?itok=DBW7AE5N)
Trump’s Asia trip kicks off with Abe meeting
The Japanese PM doesn't need an untrusted US President setting his international security agenda.
![Economic diplomacy brief: Trump and Asia, trade economists bite back, and settling investor disputes](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/singapore-container.jpg?itok=pjexf_2N)
Economic diplomacy brief: Trump and Asia, trade economists bite back, and settling investor disputes
New statistics reveal Asian trade dependency on the US and Europe.
![Economic diplomacy brief: US-Japan relations, educating China, and Bishop’s legacy](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-647379624-min.jpg?itok=1vE9VjuI)
Economic diplomacy brief: US-Japan relations, educating China, and Bishop’s legacy
What Trump might do on the Japan trade deficit, educating China's students, the legacy of Julie Bishop's economic diplomacy drive and more.
![Economic diplomacy brief: Labor’s Asian policy rebirth, foreign farm investment and PNG’s legal boom](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/GettyImages-578256028.jpg?itok=jCtTMRRh)
Economic diplomacy brief: Labor’s Asian policy rebirth, foreign farm investment and PNG’s legal boom
Labor is going back to the future with a distinctly economic determinist approach to future engagement with Asia.
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Abe gambles on a stoic Japanese electorate
Abe will be counting on uncertainty from North Korea to make Bill English-style conservative familiarity more attractive to the Japanese electorate.