Yes, we can spend our way to recovery if we are careful
Australia has rightly lost its fear of big deficits. But we must walk back debt in lockstep with private sector expansion. Originally published in The Australian Financial Review....
Australia's economic centre has shifted from Sydney to Canberra
Originally published in The Canberra Times.
Vital trade lessons from China’s failed attempt at coercion
Originally published in The Australian.
After Xi: Future Scenarios for Leadership Succession in Post-Xi Jinping Era
A Joint Report of the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and the Lowy Institute
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID
A discussion of what is in store economically for Australians after COVID-19, by one of Australia's leading economic voices.
The final reckoning in Afghanistan as Australia and the US withdraw troops
Originally published in The Australian.
Doing business in a divided world
Australian companies are learning the risks of operating in markets where Washington and Beijing are feuding. Originally published in the Australian Financial Review....
China’s Guinea mine is about security, not economics
Beijing’s investment in a greenfield project in Guinea is intended not so much to slash prices for Chinese steelmakers, but to guarantee the supply of a vital resource by diversify...
Australia is failing to recognise an urgent need: recruiting more Chinese-Australians into public service
Originally published in The Conversation.
Chinese-Australians in the Australian Public Service
Underutilised in the Australian Public Service, Chinese-Australians are central to our China literacy and future engagement with the rising global superpower....