Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific
Author: Hugh White, ANU
This month, what is likely to be this year’s biggest international summit will convene in Beijing to discuss the world’s most ambitious project. China’s Belt and Road Initiative aims to redefine the global economy of the 21st century Read more…
Author: Abdul Basit, RSIS
Unites States National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster embarked on his maiden visit to South Asia on 16 April 2017. McMaster’s trip to the region is part of the on-going consultation process ahead of finalising the Trump administration’s South Asia policy. Read more…
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
Last Thursday Donald Trump declared steel imports to the United States were a threat to US national security. Read more…
Author: Razeen Sally, NUS
International trade is in trouble after the global financial crisis and, with the new Trump administration, the world faces a protectionist onslaught. As a result, there are three ways that international trade can go from here — one considerably ‘more likely’ than the other two. Read more…
Author: He Fan, Peking University
On the surface, all seems well in the Australia–China relationship. China is growing rapidly and Australia continues to benefit heavily from China’s rise. China is already Australia’s largest trade partner. Australia is the second most popular location for China’s overseas direct investment. Read more…
Author: Sheila A Smith, CFR
In his first weeks in office, President Trump has moved quickly to implement his America First agenda through a slew of executive orders. Trade and immigration are his foreign policy focal points.
Trump’s America First agenda has several implications for foreign policymaking. Read more…
Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead; the largest free-trade zone in the world, the European Union, has splintered; and the global economy is on the way to notching up a decade of sub-par growth in trade and output following the global financial crisis.
