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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Economic diplomacy: Power shifts with Jakarta
Australia and Indonesia may be riding together in a new electric diplomatic limo, but they still have separate roadmaps.
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Economic diplomacy: Duelling D-words to delineate China
Australia seems to be treading carefully around the G7’s agreement to de-risk dependence on the region’s biggest economy.
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Economic diplomacy: Taking cover from the summit war of words
Proliferating regional institutions risk becoming shooting stars, with a long trail of bureaucratic half-lives behind.
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Economic diplomacy: Paying for a new security era
The budget contains some tantalising hints about future foreign policy, offset by some doleful old realities.
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Economic diplomacy: Friends, rivals and diplomatic gaslighting
Money still talks in a new world of tighter security alliances when Japan and China can align against Australia on energy.
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Economic diplomacy: Counting the cost of decoupling
US-China tensions are disrupting economic links for other countries as new forecasts of slow growth make change harder.
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Paying for a new Thai democracy
The real winners are far from clear, but Thailand’s populist, party jumping election is Asia’s vote to watch this year.
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Economic diplomacy: unlocked Laos looks for new links
The once isolated and landlocked nation has become an unlikely partner in Australia’s latest push into the region.
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Economic diplomacy: Arming up for war and trade
Sovereign capability is the government’s answer to an old political trade-off in the face of geoeconomic fragmentation.