Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific
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: Dhiraj Nayyar, NITI Aayog
The Indian economy is experiencing rapid growth of between 7 and 8 per cent a year. To sustain that growth rate and for India to achieve its development potential, it must open up its economy and have a strong export sector. Read more…
Author: Alwin Adityo, Indonesia Financial Services Authority (OJK)
During the Obama administration, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was crucial to US foreign policy in Asia. In the same month that the TPP was signed in February 2015, Obama suggested that ‘we have to make sure the United States — and not countries like China — is the one writing this century’s rules for the world’s economy’. But the fate of the TPP has turned upside down. Read more…
Authors: Laura Allison-Reumann, NTU and Philomena Murray, University of Melbourne
The result of the UK referendum in June 2016 in favour of leaving the European Union stunned Europe and the world. In the context of the current uncertainty surrounding the negotiations between the UK government and the EU regarding Brexit, expectations and understandings of regionalism and integration will need to be reassessed. Read more…
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI
11 December 2016 marks an important deadline: according to rules established by the WTO for Chinese membership, WTO members must stop treating Beijing as a ‘non-market economy’.
Author: Dr Martin Parkinson PSM, Canberra
The outcome of the US election has created considerable uncertainty at the country’s future policy directions towards the Asia Pacific. While it is difficult to predict how US economic diplomacy in the region will change, the rule-based order it has led remains crucial to regional security and stability. Read more…
Author: Kishore Mahbubani, NUS
China is making some serious strategic mistakes in its dealings with ASEAN. It is sacrificing its long-term interests in favour of short-term objectives and its global interests in favour of regional concerns. And in the process, it is undermining a critical catalyst to its peaceful rise. Read more…
